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.

Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to students at Moscow State University, urging them to be free of fear and full of hope for the future.

In May of 1381, peasants in the village of Fobbing were angry about a new tax. This led to an uprising against King led by Wat Tyler.

Operation Uranus proved to be a brilliant rescue plan for the city of Stalingrad. It led to the defeat of Hitler's forces in the Russian city.

Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter, born in Leiden during on the 15th of July, 1606.

WARNING: MICHELANGELO WAS AN ARTIST WHO PAINTED AND SCULPTED.

Beginning in the fifteenth century, the Medici family, more than any other, presided over this time of cultural change known as "The Renaissance."

Group of Starving African Men and Boys Removed from a Captured Dhow.

The "Judenrat" of the Warsaw Ghetto (Jewish people in charge of the ghetto) were given a "resettlement" order on the the 22nd of July, 1942.

As Wat Tyler meets his fate, at the hands of King Richard II's swordsman, the young monarch addresses the rest of the rebels. They were fed-up with i...

King from the age of ten, Richard II gave-up the throne of England in September of 1399. His next place of residence, at least for a short time, was t...

Richard I, King of England, decides to participate in the Third Crusade. His eventful journey takes him to Jerusalem.

Richard I, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, reigned in Britain between 1188-1198.

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