Read the chilling first-person account of Capt. William Dyess, who was captured on Bataan, and survived the Batann Death March.

The resource explores the crash of the Hindenburg in 1937. Listen to radio reporter Herbert Morrison's riveting broadcast as he discusses the explosion of the giant airship.

Presents a colonist's actual account of the boarding and dumping of the tea into the Boston Harbor on December 17,1773.

The resource investigates Theodore Roosevelt. Students listen to Roosevelt speak during the Presidential campaign of 1912.

Students investigate ?Tokyo Rose? the name given by American GIs to nearly a dozen women of American descent who broadcasted propaganda for the Japanese during World War II. The resource consists of an audio clip of Tokyo Rose broadcasts...

The resource investigates the quest for the North Pole in 1909. Students listen to Robert E. Peary discuss planting the American flag at the North Pole.

Students explore the battle of Iwo Jima. The resource consists of an audio clip aboard a destroyer a few hundred yards off shore during the invasion of Iwo Jima.

The resource investigates Eugene V. Debs. Debs was one of the major players in American politics at the turn of the 20th century. Students listen to Debs speak during the presidential campaign of 1904.

Students investigate D-Day. The resource consists of an audio clip of reporter George Hicks aboard a destroyer stationed offshore of the Normandy invasion.

Read the account of Howard Carter, an English Egyptologist, who discovered King Tut's tomb in 1923.

Vivid and succinct account of the efforts and struggles of WWI veterans who marched on Washtington D.C. to demand their veterans' benefits. Article describes their forced dispersement by the army, which strained the confidence of the...

A historically significant account of what Reverend Robert Walsh observed on a slave ship off the African coast in 1829.

An account of the Soviet takeover of Berlin in 1945. Presents an actual report of a war torn city and people starving, huddled in their houses as the army approached.

A selection from Suetonius that describes the actions Caesar took at the Rubicon River, why he did it, and the effects of this move.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are legendary outlaws of the American West who robbed banks and trains. This is an account of their 1899 train robbery as reported in the June 8, 1899 issue of the Buffalo Bulletin.

Calvin Coolidge's account of the night he was hurriedly sworn in as president after the death of President Warren G. Harding.

Features background details on Nathan Hale and a narrative on what led to his execution in 1776.

First-hand account of a pilot who flew on the mission to bomb Tokyo in 1942 as part of the Doolittle Raid.

This resource on the 9/11 attacks by the BBC includes information on the four hijacked planes, the World Trade Center, a diagram that lists all the companies that were located in the two towers of the World Trade Center, pictures from...

Extensive information about the collapse of the USSR. Includes an interactive timeline from 1985 through 1991, an interactive map of the countries of the USSR with country profiles and timelines, eyewitness accounts of the collapse of...

Testimony from forty men and women, including many first responders and eyewitnesses, whose memories of the September 11 attacks on America remind us of the tragedy and heroism of the day.

This site provides a look at John Brown's life. Content includes a chronology of events in his life, a look at his family and cohorts, newspaper articles, eyewitness accounts, and more.

You may have read about criminal cases where innocent people have been wrongly convicted of a crime. Sometimes, modern DNA analysis techniques have provided the evidence to exonerate these innocent people. In many cases, mistaken...

Take a look back at the events surrounding the day after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China when "a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks" symbolizing the struggle for freedom. Provides a...