History & Culture

The American Revolution was the political movement and war through which thirteen British colonies established the independent United States.

The Ancient Olympic Games were a recurring Greek athletic and religious festival held at Olympia in honor of Zeus.

The 1969 spaceflight that carried the first humans to the Moon’s surface.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was the November 1989 opening of border crossings that had divided East and West Berlin for decades.

The Renaissance was a European cultural movement marked by renewed interest in classical learning, artistic experimentation, humanism, and investigation of the natural world.

The Titanic disaster was the 1912 sinking of a passenger liner after it struck an iceberg during its maiden Atlantic voyage.

World War II was a global conflict fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allied powers and the Axis powers.