From the International Institute of Social History this is "Forging ahead courageously while following the great leader Chairman Mao" a Chinese political propaganda poster by the artists of the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing...

An image of "Courage and Cowardice", created by Alfred Stevens from 1858-67 (Plaster, height 62 cm).

Online presentation of personal narratives includes remembrances from former POWs held captive in Germany, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

This site presents a brief overview and newspaper clip documenting the first manned space mission. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12, 1961.

President of the Republic of the Philippines since February 25, 1986, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, has experienced praise and faced adversity with courage and directness.

It seems that no animal has inspired the imagination of man more than the lion (Panthera leo). Characterized as fearsome, courageous and majestic, the lion's strength and ferocity has earned it the title of 'King of the Beasts' in many...

A map of the eastern coast of India showing the Anglo-India (East India Company) possessions after Robert Clive's departure in 1760. The map is color-coded to show the extent of the British territories at the time, and shows the...

An unusual amulet of the leg of a bull of the sort that was called an "assimilation amulet," which confers on its wearer the attributes of the animal. This amulet provides its possessor with the savage strength, the courage and the...

A fascinating and inspiring biography from the Internet Cello Society of the famous Spanish cellist, Pablo Casals. Of particular interest is the outstanding courage he displayed during the Spanish Civil War.

Charles I (1625-1649) was a far abler ruler than his father. He was a man of greater courage and more dignity of character, but he had been trained from infancy in the belief of his divine right to fule, and he chose ministers who...

In the oratory of more thn two thousand years Demosthenes stands in the front rank, and will always hold first place among the orators of the ancient world. He was born in 384 B.C. When he was only seven years of age, his father, a...

General Ward, born in New York city, June 17th, 1823, was educated at Trinity Collegiate School; enlisted at the age of eighteen in the Seventh United States Infantry, and in four years rose through the several grades to that of sergeant...

The chief credit of the battle of Marathon belongs to Miltiades. But for his courage, the Athenians would have shut themselves up in their city and stood a siege; and it was the stimulus of his heroism that nerved his little army to the...

William, Prince of Orange, called 'William the Silent,' was the natural leader of the Netherlands at this crisis, and he was chosen by Holland and Zealand as their governor. He was the determined foe of Spanish tyranny, and his strength...

Stories focuses on military medicine and highlights personal accounts from doctors, nurses and individuals providing medical support.