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In the autumn of 1943, a Polish social worker named Irena Sendler climbed into the back of an ambulance on Złota Street in Warsaw, carrying...
Joseph Exell preserved two Victorian illustrations of this principle in action.
The Wise Teacher presents three critical warnings about approaching places of moral danger.
In December 1937, Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, and unleashed weeks of mass violence against civilians. While many foreign nationals evacuated, American missionary Minnie Vautrin...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday bent over a simple iron ring in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He had wound...
--- The Nurses Who Refused to Stand Alone On the first of July, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick rose to address a gathering of nurses from...
Yet these pilgrims did not cast off their festive spirit with their holiday attire.
Soldiers and hunters would excavate deep holes, carefully cover them with branches and earth, and disguise them so completely that approaching enemies or wild beasts would plunge unsuspectingly to their doom.
As a boy in Arbois, France, Louis Pasteur watched a man bitten by a rabid wolf being dragged to the local blacksmith. The only known...
Instead, this apostle, who had seen Christ Himself on the Damascus road, gathered three companions: Timothy, Silas, and Luke.
When the Temple of Jerusalem was completed after twenty-three years of struggle, opposition, and bureaucratic entanglement, the narrative does not first credit the masons' hands or the Persian king's decree.
In early April 1945, Allied forces were closing in on Germany from every direction. The war would end in weeks. At Flossenburg concentration camp in...
In late July 1940, Chiune Sugihara, Japan's Vice-Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, found hundreds of Jewish refugees outside his consulate. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland and...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to his cluttered laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Before leaving, he had...
On May 5, 1945, American soldiers scrambled to retreat down the four-hundred-foot Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa as Japanese forces overwhelmed their position. Dozens of wounded...
In the autumn of 1772, eighteen of Boston's most prominent men — including Governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Hancock — gathered to examine a young...
Eastern storms possess a peculiar ferocity: vivid lightning and suffocating darkness alternate with startling rapidity, creating an appalling effect.
In January 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution denied Marian Anderson permission to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., solely because she was...
In the winter of 1906, sanitary engineer George Soper was hired to investigate a puzzling typhoid outbreak at a rented summer home in Oyster Bay,...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel barely left his rooms at 25 Brook Street in London. For twenty-four consecutive days, from August...
In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel shut himself inside his home at 25 Brook Street in London and began to compose. For...
Maclaren identifies three movements in this fatal process.
In the summer of 1943, a lab assistant named Mary Hunt walked into a Peoria, Illinois, fruit market and picked up a bruised cantaloupe covered...