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On a January evening in 1863, Robert Gould Shaw sat at his family's dinner table in Boston when a letter arrived from Governor Andrew offering...
During the devastating Indian famine of 1896, Pandita Ramabai — a Sanskrit scholar turned Christian — threw open the gates of her mission compound in...
In the small town of Elburn, Illinois, Harold Metzger ran a 200-acre corn and soybean operation for forty-three years. What made Harold different from every...
On January 13, 2018, a false missile alert went out across Hawaii. Every phone on every island buzzed simultaneously with the same terrifying message: "BALLISTIC...
On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the rocky shore of Kalaupapa, Molokai. The...
In 1943, a young Polish nurse named Irena Sendler could have stayed safe. She had papers. She had connections. She could have kept her head...
In the winter of 1944, Corrie ten Boom huddled on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, surrounded by lice, disease, and the ever-present stench...
On May 22, 2011, the tornado sirens in Joplin, Missouri, began wailing at 5:11 p.m. Most residents barely looked up. The sirens had sounded twice...
Every morning at 4:47 AM, Jasmine Torres's phone alarm cuts through the darkness of her apartment in Queens. She's a trauma nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian, and...
In 2019, a tour group descended 280 feet into Mammoth Cave in Kentucky — the longest cave system on Earth, stretching over 420 miles beneath...
In a small coastal town, where the sun once painted the sky in hues of gold at dawn and fishermen returned home with nets heavy with silver catches, a palpable sense of despair hung over the docks. The salty breeze...
When Ernest Shackleton's ship *Endurance* was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915, he left twenty-two men stranded on desolate Elephant Island while he sailed eight...
In 2019, Howard and Lucille Granger, both in their late seventies, bought three hundred bare-root apple trees and planted them across four acres of rocky...
On October 17, 2010, a billion people watched a television feed from the Atacama Desert in Chile. But the real moment had come weeks earlier,...
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond was considered a medal contender in the 400-meter semifinal. He had spent years clawing back from...
On September 11, 2001, Father Mychal Judge ran toward the Twin Towers while thousands fled. The sixty-eight-year-old Franciscan friar served as chaplain to the New...
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, having just spoken about God's forgiveness to a crowd of defeated Germans. A...
On March 20, 1980, a 4.2-magnitude earthquake shook Mount St. Helens in Washington State. Over the next two months, the north face of the mountain...
In 2018, ultramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter won the Moab 240 — a 238-mile race across the Utah desert. But what struck people wasn't the finish...
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shattered the ocean floor off Japan's coast, unleashing tsunami waves that obliterated entire coastal towns. Over eighteen thousand...
On September 14, 2019, paramedic Sarah Chen pressed the paddles against a construction worker's chest in a parking lot off Interstate 5 near Tacoma, Washington....
In 1192, King Richard I of England was captured on his return from the Crusades by Duke Leopold of Austria. The ransom demanded was staggering:...
October 15, 1988. Game 1 of the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Oakland Athletics — one of baseball's most dominant teams, led...
Derek Redmond had trained for this moment his entire life. On August 3, 1992, in the semifinals of the 400-meter race at the Barcelona Olympics,...