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.
Theodore Roosevelt, visiting son Kermit, along with Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon, took a harrowing trip down the Rio da Duvida ("River of Doubt")...
Josef Terboven, a German, and Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian, take control in Norway after the German invasion in April of 1940.
During the 14th century, when the plague struck Europe, even doctors were unsure what was happening.
Imagining what it would be like to have alter-ego boys, both aged 9, living on opposite sides of the Auschwitz fence, John Boyne creates a sobering st...
When Columbus arrived in the Bahamas, in 1492, he began an exchange of crops, animals and diseases which still impact the world. It is known as "The C...
The Etruscan League, historians believe, flourished in Central Italy for a time before Rome became the dominant force on the Italian Peninsula. Today ...
After a six-month period of relative quiet, which some journalists called a "phony war," Hitler sent his troops to invade, then occupy, Norway in Apri...
Barbara Tuchman's famous book about World War I begins with a poignant passage about the last days of the Edwardian era (when color photography was fi...
When Joseph Stalin came to power, after the death of Vladimir Lenin, he decided to force a monumental change in the way people in the Soviet Union rai...
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
Who were the Huns? What kind of soldiers were they? How did they accomplish so much under the leadership of Atilla?
Tintoretto created the painting depicted in this image - Ascent to Calvary - for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco between 1565 and 1567.
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