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In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher...
In 1937, a twenty-five-year-old social worker named Dorothy Height walked into a meeting at the Harlem YWCA and met Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of...
In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to...
On September 10, 1960, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome with no shoes on his feet. The other runners...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
On September 15, 1963, a bomb planted by Ku Klux Klan members exploded beneath the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls...
In September 1962, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez gathered farmworkers into a small hall in Fresno, California, to found the National Farm Workers Association —...
In Topeka, Kansas, a young girl named Linda Brown walked past Sumner Elementary School each morning — just seven blocks from her home — then...
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — Birmingham police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. for defying a court injunction against public demonstrations. They led...
In 1967, as ACLU attorney Bernard Cohen prepared to argue before the United States Supreme Court, he asked his client Richard Loving if there was...
On August 28, 1963, Mahalia Jackson stood before a quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and sang "I Been 'Buked and...
On May 1, 1994, Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy,...
In 1969, as malaria ravaged soldiers across Southeast Asia, Chinese chemist Tu Youyou was tasked with finding a cure. She and her team at the...
In 2008, surgeon Atul Gawande stood before the World Health Organization with an audacious claim: a simple two-minute checklist could prevent thousands of surgical deaths...
On the morning of March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the village of My Lai in...
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Before...
On April 12, 1955, hundreds of scientists and reporters packed the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr....
During the darkest years of World War II, while German bombs fell on British cities and the outcome of civilization hung in the balance, an...
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium and delivered the words millions of...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-choked Potomac River during a...
In 2008, surgeon Atul Gawande confronted a humbling reality: operating rooms staffed by the most highly trained professionals on earth were still making preventable mistakes....
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-covered Potomac River during a...
On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and demanded, "Which one of you is Malala?" Then he fired...
In 1952, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, Dr. Virginia Apgar recognized a troubling pattern. In delivery rooms across America,...