How a devastating earthquake, tsunami and fires destroyed much of Portugal’s capital, challenged European ideas about nature and divine providence, and inspired one of the…
How a historic wave of selling on the New York Stock Exchange shattered confidence in America’s economic prosperity, accelerated a financial collapse and became an…
How a reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Cuba, a Soviet submarine faced an escalating confrontation at sea, and Washington and Moscow struggled to prevent…
How Britain’s Royal Navy defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets off the coast of Spain, ending Napoleon’s immediate hopes of challenging British naval supremacy…
How a remote Russian colony became American territory, why the purchase was controversial, and how Alaska eventually emerged as one of the most strategically important…
