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In June 1752, Benjamin Franklin and his son William walked to an open field on the outskirts of Philadelphia, carrying a silk kite fitted with...
In August 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the verge of elimination in the long jump qualifying rounds at the Berlin Olympics. He had already fouled...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed a telescope he had built himself toward Jupiter from Padua, Italy. What he saw puzzled...
On May 29, 1851, a tall, weathered woman rose from the pews of the Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio. The Women's Rights Convention had...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before nearly six hundred people in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery...
In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
In a cramped, leaking shed behind the École de Physique et de Chimie in Paris, Marie Curie bent over a steaming iron cauldron in the...
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell walked across the stage at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York and received her Doctor of Medicine degree...
On a moonless night in the autumn of 1850, Harriet Tubman crept back across the Maryland border into Dorchester County — the very land she...
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune welcomed five little girls and her own son into a rented cottage in Daytona Beach, Florida. She had...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in a white execution shroud on the Semyonovsky Parade Ground in St. Petersburg, waiting to die. He...
In 1845, Victor Hugo began writing a novel about a convict named Jean Valjean — a man imprisoned nineteen years for stealing a loaf of...
In 1869, Leo Tolstoy published the final installment of *War and Peace* from his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow. The novel had consumed...
In 1937, a thirty-one-year-old German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer published a book that opened with one of the most arresting lines in Christian literature: "Cheap...
In the winter of 1943, Corrie ten Boom was a fifty-one-year-old unmarried watchmaker living above her family's shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. Jewish neighbors were vanishing...
In October 1772, a young enslaved woman named Phillis Wheatley stood before a panel of eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas...
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stepped to a microphone on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Weeks earlier, the Daughters of the...
In 1764, John Newton was ordained as an Anglican curate and assigned to the small parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Olney,...
In 1845, Victor Hugo began writing a novel he called *Les Misères* — "The Miseries." It was a portrait of poverty and injustice in France....
On the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before a packed audience at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, his arms sweeping...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a mess. A petri dish of...
In 1940, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at Oxford University proved that Alexander Fleming's overlooked mold could cure deadly bacterial infections. But they hit...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before nearly six hundred people in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society had...
In the summer of 1687, Isaac Newton, a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, published *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica* — a work that revealed a single...