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In 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center made a remarkable discovery. When they examined the brain tissue of women who had passed...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched...
On Christmas Eve, 1914, along the muddy trenches near Ypres, Belgium, German soldiers began placing candles on small trees above their parapets. Then came the...
Before Frederick Douglass ever stood on a platform, abolitionists in the North had heard plenty about slavery. They read pamphlets and printed testimonies. They studied...
In 1873, Chicago lawyer Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. Business had delayed him,...
In the summer of 1945, Winston Churchill — the man who had rallied Britain through its darkest hours, who had stared down Hitler when the...
In 1939, contralto Marian Anderson was already celebrated as one of the greatest singers in the world. Conductor Arturo Toscanini had declared hers "a voice...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years running from God...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself in his London apartment on Brook Street and barely ate for twenty-four days. Friends...
Margaret Chen kept a wooden recipe box on her kitchen counter in Portland, Oregon — a gift from her grandmother. Inside were over two hundred...
On October 6, 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels. His crime: translating the Bible into English so that common plowboys could...
On June 2, 2022, over a million people gathered along the Mall in London for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee concert. Camera crews captured something...
When Hurricane Helene tore through Swannanoa, North Carolina in September 2024, the floodwaters gutted First Baptist Church down to the studs. Mud caked the pews....
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years enslaved to desires...
In Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment*, Raskolnikov commits a horrific murder and then spirals through hundreds of pages of guilt, paranoia, and isolation. He is convinced...
In the summer of 386 AD, a restless young professor named Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. He had spent...
In 1845, Sir John Franklin led 129 men into the Arctic aboard the *Erebus* and *Terror*, searching for the Northwest Passage. They carried fine china,...
On June 2, 1953, twenty-seven million people across Britain huddled around television sets to watch Queen Elizabeth II crowned in Westminster Abbey. The BBC positioned...
Thomas Jefferson spent over thirty years trying to cultivate European wine grapes at Monticello. Beginning in 1773, he imported the finest *Vitis vinifera* cuttings from...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that baffled his colleagues. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the Hubble...
In 1987, a seventeen-year-old named David Kim left his family's dry cleaning shop in Flushing, Queens, after a bitter argument with his father. His father...
In 1850, a young enslaved mother named Harriet Tubman made a desperate choice. Word had reached her that she was about to be sold further...
Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor, spent fourteen years in communist prisons — three of them in solitary confinement thirty feet beneath Bucharest. He had no...
Dr. Margaret Chen had studied fingerprints for twenty-three years at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia. She had examined over forty thousand prints across...