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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself away in his modest home on Brook Street in London. For twenty-four extraordinary days, from...
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In December 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced to the French Academy of Sciences that they had discovered a new element — radium. But the...
In May 1851, several ministers at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, argued that women were too delicate and intellectually inferior to deserve equal...
In May 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Some attendees urged the convention's president, Frances Gage, not...
On February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester plowed through the icy black waters of the North Atlantic, carrying 902 soldiers and merchant mariners toward Greenland....
In the parlor of a modest New York City apartment in 1875, Fanny Crosby sat at a small writing desk, her sightless eyes turned toward...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, wearing a white execution shirt. He and...
In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone parsonage in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains...
In late August 1741, George Frideric Handel received a libretto from Charles Jennens — a carefully assembled text drawn entirely from the King James Bible...
In 1660, a tinker-turned-preacher named John Bunyan stood before magistrates in Bedfordshire, England, charged with holding unlicensed religious services. The sentence was simple: stop preaching,...
In April 1862, Victor Hugo published *Les Misérables* from his exile on the island of Guernsey, where political banishment from France had given him years...
In the winter of 1454, inside a workshop on Mainz's Christophstraße, Johannes Gutenberg pressed inked metal type against a sheet of dampened vellum. Letter by...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers surrounded the Dom Sierot orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and ordered its nearly two hundred children deported. Their director,...
In November 1900, at a small experimental station outside Havana, Cuba, Private John Kissinger stood before Major Walter Reed and spoke words that stunned the...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, escaping a Germany that was tightening its grip on every conscience...
On September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the German roundup he knew was coming. While...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, dressed in a white execution shroud. He...
On May 10, 1873, a small boat deposited a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest onto the rocky shore of the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai, Hawaii. Father Damien...
On the morning of January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln shook hands for three hours at the traditional New Year's Day reception in the White House....
During basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the men of Company B, 77th Infantry Division, wanted Private Desmond Doss gone. They harassed him relentlessly...
On January 31, 1865, the floor of the United States House of Representatives erupted. After months of intense lobbying by President Abraham Lincoln and his...
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer stepped off a river steamer onto the banks of the Ogooué River in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa. He was...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei pressed his eye to a telescope in Padua, Italy, and aimed it at Jupiter. What he...
In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble sat in the observer's chair of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena, California. For years...