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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
In 1873, Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...
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On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, wearing number 42, and became the first Black man to...
For eighteen years, Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city perched on the northern bank of the Ohio River with slaveholding Kentucky just...
On the evening of March 24, 1882, Dr. Robert Koch stood before the Berlin Physiological Society and made an announcement that would alter the course...
In the spring of 1944, behind the concrete walls of the Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China, a gaunt Scottish missionary noticed a barefoot Chinese...
In early December 1873, Horatio Spafford — a Chicago lawyer who had already lost his young son and much of his fortune in the Great...
In late July 1941, after a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten to...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach arrived in Leipzig, Germany, to take up his post as Thomaskantor — director of music at St. Thomas Church. He...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn, New York, and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does...
On May 29, 1851, a tall, weathered woman rose from the pews of the Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio. The Women's Rights Convention had...
On November 22, 1873, the French steamship *Ville du Havre* collided with the iron-hulled *Loch Earn* in the cold waters of the mid-Atlantic. The ship...
On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson sat across from Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in a office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn. Robinson, a...
On a moonless night in the autumn of 1850, Harriet Tubman crept back across the Maryland border into Dorchester County — the very land she...
When Father Damien de Veuster arrived at the Kalaupapa settlement on Molokai in May 1873, he found over eight hundred men, women, and children abandoned...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen trips from freedom back into the slave-holding South — back into the very darkness she had escaped....
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to Maryland's Eastern Shore — the very land from which she had escaped — to lead...
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died on a thin mattress in Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China. He was forty-three years old. A brain...
In a cramped, leaking shed behind the École de Physique et de Chimie in Paris, Marie Curie bent over a steaming iron cauldron in the...
On August 4, 1936, in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, eighty thousand spectators watched as Jesse Owens struggled. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two...
On March 20, 1852, the Boston firm of John P. Jewett published a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle...
At 12:55 a.m. on February 3, 1943, a German torpedo tore into the hull of the USAT Dorchester in the icy North Atlantic near Greenland....
Berlin, August 4, 1936. Jesse Owens stood at the edge of the long jump runway, the roar of one hundred thousand spectators pressing against him...
On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich's main hall carrying a suitcase full of leaflets. She was...