Recounts the Iran-Contra affair of 1986 involving members of President Ronald Reagan's administration, Nicaraguan rebel forces known as Contras, and Iranians. Explores the events and people linked to the affair and covers the formal investigation and its findings. Features a timeline, glossary of terms, and resources.
Explains how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife lead to World War I, and includes eyewitness accounts and contemporary views of the event, a time line summarizing important dates, and informative photographs and diagrams.
Recounts the events surrounding the November 1938 attacks in which Nazi troops in Germany and Austria destroyed more than eight thousand Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues, beginning the Nazi's persecution of the Jews.
A narrative describing the events surrounding the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945, the devastation and deaths that resulted from it, and the surrender that ended World War II.
Examines the August 2005 hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast of the United States, discussing the evacuation of cities, destruction, and rescue and relief efforts; and provides a time line of events, related Web sites, and a glossary.
Chronicles the 1961 freedom rides involving African-American and white activists who traveled on buses from Washington D.C. to the South in order to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision against segregation in bus stations.
Describes the September 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan that left four young girls dead and several injured, the rise of the Klan after the Civil War, and the civil rights movement.
