How a chartered aircraft carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes, leaving survivors trapped in the mountains for 72 days and confronting them…
How a voyage across the Atlantic connected two worlds, transformed global trade and political power, and began centuries of conquest, colonization, cultural exchange and devastating…
How Pope John XXIII brought thousands of bishops to Rome for a historic council that would reshape Catholic worship, religious freedom, relations with other faiths…
How a military revolt in central China triggered the Xinhai Revolution, brought down the Qing dynasty and ended more than two thousand years of imperial…
How the capture and execution of one of the Cuban Revolution’s most recognizable figures ended a guerrilla campaign in the Bolivian mountains, transformed a revolutionary…
How a devastating fire destroyed much of Chicago, left approximately 100,000 people homeless, exposed the vulnerabilities of a rapidly industrializing American city and helped shape…
How a coordinated assault from Gaza overwhelmed Israel’s border defenses, killed around 1,200 people, carried 251 hostages into Gaza and triggered a war whose consequences…
