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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
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On August 4, 1936, seventy thousand spectators packed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin as Jesse Owens, a Black sharecropper's son from Alabama, stepped to the...
In the final years of his life, Rembrandt van Rijn had lost nearly everything. The once-celebrated Dutch master had been declared insolvent in 1656. His...
By 1944, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter who electrified the world by winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics —...
On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led to the gallows at Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria. He was thirty-nine years old. Just two weeks...
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium to honor a man who could barely hold a baseball. Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse"...
On March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti walked out of Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, with seventy-eight followers behind him....
John Newton drafted his own epitaph. The aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in London chose words of unflinching honesty: "John Newton, Clerk, once an...
In March 1907, sanitary engineer George Soper confronted Mary Mallon at a Manhattan townhouse with an alarming claim: she was spreading typhoid fever to every...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As retribution, deputy commander Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten...
In the winter of 1942, a knock came at a farmhouse door in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village nestled in the mountains of south-central France....
On June 12, 1942, a thirteen-year-old girl in Amsterdam received a red-and-white checkered autograph book for her birthday. Within weeks, Anne Frank and her family...
In August 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the verge of elimination in the long jump qualifying rounds at the Berlin Olympics. He had already fouled...
On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, a young physician named Crawford Long asked his patient James Venable to inhale deeply...
On July 4, 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog near his village in Alsace, suffering fourteen bite wounds on his hands,...
On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship onto the docks of New York City, safely an ocean away from Hitler's Germany. Friends...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory on the second floor of St. Mary's Hospital in London....
In the summer of 1940, hundreds of Jewish refugees crowded outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, desperate for transit visas that could carry them...
On the morning of July 6, 1924, the fastest sprinter in Scotland was nowhere near the starting blocks. Eric Liddell, the flying Scotsman favored to...
On the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on the stage of Vienna's Theater am Kärntnertor, his back to a packed house....
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...