World History Documents

This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...

Greek hoplites were infantrymen who fought their battles in tightly packed formations.  They took their name ("hoplite") from the "hoplon," a shi...

According to research compiled by E.P Evans - in his 1906 book entitled The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals - horseflies in Mai...

The western edge of Attila's empire was the Rhine River, in today's Germany.  Click on the map to more closely examine it.

At a time when the fastest mode of transportation was by horse, Attila and his Huns conquered a vast expanse of territory.  To the east, his empi...

This image depicts an official memo from the U.S. Hydrographic Office issued on the 15th of April, 1912. It indicates that Titanic had struck an icebe...

Bookcover image of Imperial Vanities: The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum, by Brian Thompson.

Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African").  Never previously exposed to sailing, the young kid...

Because of a sudden fog shrouding the active runway (which was also used as the active taxiway), the Pan Am crew could not see the third exit (referre...

This message - sent from Tokyo to Berlin one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor - was intercepted, and decoded, by the U.S. government.   ...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's two ambassadors in Washington twelve days bef...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from the Japanese emissary in Washington to Tokyo eleven days befor...