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When Hawa Abdi arrived in Clarkston, Georgia, in 2016, she wanted to go home. The Somali Bantu refugee missed the red soil of her village,...
In 1961, a young attorney named Thurgood Marshall sat in his small office in New York, preparing yet another civil rights brief, when he received...
In January 2019, during the polar vortex that dropped temperatures to thirty below in Detroit, a group of women from New Bethel Church realized something...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping something extraordinary: the mechanisms by which our cells...
On the night before Easter, 387 AD, a thirty-two-year-old rhetoric professor stepped into the octagonal baptistery beside Milan Cathedral. His name was Augustine, and he...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a breathtaking discovery: your body is repairing itself right...
In the Judean foothills southwest of Bethlehem, you can still find the caves where David hid from Saul — deep limestone shelves carved by centuries...
When Dr. Margaret Chen arrived in the remote Hmong village of Ban Nam Hia in northern Laos, she had already spent three years studying the...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a disagreeable boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's treasure hoard and wakes to...
In 362 AD, Emperor Julian — whom history remembers as "Julian the Apostate" — sat in his palace writing a frustrated letter to a pagan...
In 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was dragged from the front lines of World War II and sentenced to eight years in Soviet labor camps for privately...
In the German town of Ohrdruf around 1696, eleven-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach lived with his older brother Johann Christoph, who kept a cabinet of advanced...
In 1998, the city council of Greenville, South Carolina voted to demolish the Reedy River Falls bridge downtown. The area was an eyesore — abandoned...
For five years, Judson Van DeVenter said no to God. A gifted art teacher in Michigan in the 1890s, he loved painting, loved his students,...
In April 1737, George Frideric Handel collapsed in his London home. A stroke paralyzed his right side and, by some accounts, temporarily clouded his mind....
Long before the laboratory lights flickered on at Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver was already awake. Every morning at four o'clock, the agricultural scientist walked...
In 2019, a high school volleyball coach in Cedar Rapids, Iowa named Dana Sexton showed up at a middle school tournament she had no reason...
When Maria Gonzalez started her first rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins, every baby's cry sounded the same to her —...
In ham radio, a mentor is called an Elmer. That's who fourteen-year-old Marcus found when he joined the amateur radio club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa....
At Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, you can do something that feels almost impossible — walk across the Mississippi River. At its headwaters, the mightiest...
For three years, the vacant lot at 412 Elm Street in Decatur, Georgia, collected nothing but tire ruts and fast-food wrappers. The city council voted...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean is a man defined by a number. Nineteen years in prison for stealing bread have reduced him to...
In 2011, researchers from Ben Gurion University discovered something remarkable along the shores of the Dead Sea. Fresh water springs were bubbling up from beneath...
When Marcus arrived at his fourth foster home in two years, he didn't bother unpacking his trash bag of clothes. He'd learned not to settle...