World History Story Briefs

Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.

Hannah More opposed slavery and the slave trade. She fought hard with people like Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, John Newton and many others to...

We know how Henry VIII and many of his contemporaries appeared thanks to the work of a prolific German artist known as Hans Holbein the Younger. Who w...

This film depicts Colonel Hans Landa as a Jew Hunter. Although the film is not entirely historically based, during WWII there was a real SS "Jew Hunte...

Dr. Harold Gillies innovated a procedure known as the "tubed pedicle" to help restore the faces of men injured during WWI.

Francis Hauksbee invented this electrostatic generator which he, and others, used in early 18th-century scientific demonstrations.

This image, from the German Federal Archives, depicts Heinrich Himmler at the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1936.

Henry Essex Edgeworth - an Irish cleric who was living in France - became Louis XVIs spiritual advisor during his final days. Although he (and others)...

In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version ofHenry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losses...

In this scene from Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V, released in 1989, we see the English king and his men assessing both French and English losse...

In 1520, Henry VIII had two living children - Mary (his daughter with Catherine of Aragon) and Henry FitzRoy (his illegitimate son with Bessie Blount)...

Hera was the wife of Zeus, therefore queen of the gods of ancient Greece, according to Greek mythology.

The "Higgs Boson" was "in the news" around the world on July 4, 2012. Scientists at CERN - in Europe - announced theymayhave found this particle foll...

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