Annette McDermott

Life in the early 1600s at Jamestown consisted mainly of danger, hardship, disease and death.

To justify the need for New Deal projects, the government employed photographers to document the suffering of those affected, producing some of the most iconic photographs of the Great Depression.

Former FBI deputy director William Mark Felt broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in 2005 that he was “Deep Throat,” the anonymous government source who helped take down President Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

Centuries of prejudice and discrimination against blacks fueled the civil rights crusade, but World War II and its aftermath were arguably the main catalysts.

How did women's service during World War II inspire their fight for social change and equality?

A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, on May 7, 1915. The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I.

On a cold night in Boston in 1770, angry colonists pelted a lone British sentry with snowballs. The rest is history.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn—also known as Custer’s Last Stand—was the most ferocious battle of the Sioux Wars. Colonel George Custer and his men never stood a fighting chance.

The causes of World War I have been debated since it ended—but the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was an early catalyst.