1923-1939
- Turkey Forced Westward
- Adolf Hitler's Practice Power Grab
- The Death of a Bolshevik
- The 40-Hour Revolution
- The First Across Alone
- The First Talking Picture
- The Overlooked Miracle
- The Mouse That Roared
- Wall Street's Bad, Bad Fall
- A Disobedient Saint's March
- Launching the New Deal
- Movies' Moral Crackdown
- AA Takes Its First Steps
- A Victory for the Good Guys
- Finding the King's Fortune
- Birth of the Superhero
- The Night Hope Shattered
- Storming into Poland
1940-1959
- Churchill Takes Charge
- What I Saw at Pearl Harbor
- D-Day: Saving a Continent
- Unleashing an Era of Dread
- Breaking the Color Line
- Freedom and Calamity
- Flying Faster than Sound
- The Big Dripper's Opening
- The Dawn of Israel
- New China is Born
- McCarthy's First Slander
- Falling in Love with Lucy
- The Bloody Mau Mau Revolt
- Eureka: The Double Helix
- A Bus Rider's Defiance
- The King Finds His Voice
- The Space Race Lifts Off
- Uncovering Earliest Man
1960-1979
- The Pill That Unleashed Sex
- Breaking the Silence on DDT
- A Church Transformed
- Averting the Apocalypse
- Marching for a Dream
- The Infamous Day in Dallas
- "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!"
- Demanding Full Equality
- A Call for Mass Insanity
- The Brand-New Heart
- Tet: The Beginning of the End
- Killing the Dreamer
- A Final Blow to Camelot
- Standing Up for Gay Rights
- "One Giant Leap for Mankind"
- The Computer on a Chip
- Not Just Any Burglary
- Getting the Right to Choose
- Good Night, Vietnam
- Apple Boots Up
- The Arrival of the Jedi
- Brave New Baby
- The Ayatullah's Return
- The Iron Lady Sings
- Soviet Folly in Afghanistan
1980-2003
- A Good Day for Savers
- A Name for the Plague
- Bedeviling an Empire
- My First Day on the Job
- A Pill to Make Your Day
- Bin Laden Steps up to No. 1
- Taking Down the Wall
- At Long Last, Freedom
- How the Web Was Spun
- The Foreshadowing of 9/11
- Color Us Divided on O.J.
- A Made-in-America Nightmare
- Netscape's IPO Sparks a Boom
- Death of a Princess
- A Potent Breakthrough
- A Generation Takes a Stand
- End of the Endless Election
- The Enemy is Defined
- The Day al-Qaeda Attacked America
A look at some of the most crucial events in the history of the world