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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...
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...
If you own a pair of noise-canceling headphones — Bose, Sony, Apple — you have witnessed a quiet parable of sacrifice every time you press...
In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia made a remarkable discovery. She found that trees in a forest are not competing...
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....
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, a lanky twenty-one-year-old from Portland, Oregon, did something no one had ever seen. While every other high...
In the 1930s, biophysicist Selig Hecht at Columbia University studied something remarkable about human vision. When you step from bright sunlight into a dark room,...
In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has squandered every gift he was ever given. Brilliant but broken,...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. A stroke four years earlier had left his right side partially paralyzed. His operas were failing....
When Margaret Chen moved into her first house in Boise in 1987, she spent an entire Saturday cleaning the picture window in the living room...
On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton was lying on her surfboard off the north shore of Kauai when a fourteen-foot tiger...
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's *The Secret Garden*, ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor as a sour, neglected child — unloved and, by her own...
In the heart of a bustling city, there lived a grandmother named Ruth. Every Saturday morning, she would rise before dawn, don her worn gardening gloves, and tend to a small patch of earth behind her cramped apartment building. It...
In 1978, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogota, Colombia. Premature babies were dying. Incubators were scarce, overcrowded,...
On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter knelt in Brandenburg-Görden Prison outside Berlin and was executed by guillotine. His crime was simple: he refused to swear...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
In 1997, the San Antonio Spurs finished with the worst record in franchise history — 20 wins and 62 losses. It was a brutal season....
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, the hobbits Merry and Pippin encounter the Ents — ancient tree-shepherds who have guarded the forests of Middle-earth for...
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...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the fastest man in Britain. He was favored to win the 100-meter dash....
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...
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...
In the spring of 1940, Gladys Aylward — a former parlour maid from Edmonton, London, barely five feet tall — faced an impossible task. With...