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In 1969, Random House published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, Maya Angelou's unflinching memoir of growing up Black in the segregated South. The...
Between 1958 and 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly compiled one of the most devastating testimonies of the twentieth century. Working from hidden notebooks across the Soviet...
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. What he saw...
In 1952, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar noticed something troubling: doctors had no standard method to...
On May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly stood and did something unprecedented — they declared that humanity had defeated smallpox forever. A disease...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
In June 1984, Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and raised a petri dish to his lips. The...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...
In 1941, as Britain fought for survival in the Second World War, James Welch, the BBC's Director of Religious Broadcasting, sent a letter to an...
In 1999, Dr. Denis Mukwege opened Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a city in eastern Congo scarred by decades of armed conflict. He expected to practice...
On December 5, 1955, four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, more...
On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone at his post inside Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet command bunker south of Moscow. Just after...
On May 8, 1980, delegates at the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly in Geneva rose to affirm what had never before been true in human history:...
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had been flying for forty-two years. He started in a Cessna 172 at age sixteen, flew F-4...
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lifted US Airways Flight 1549 off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with 155 souls aboard. Ninety seconds...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....
In the summer of 1973, Soviet secret police hauled in Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, a sixty-seven-year-old typist in Leningrad, and interrogated her for days. They wanted one...
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison sat in a reclining chair at the Town Hall Blood Donor Centre in Sydney, Australia, and rolled up...
On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling. Sister Teresa had taught at St. Mary's High School...
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate...
At 9:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93....
On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and spoke on behalf of...
On December 5, 1955, over 40,000 Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride the city buses. What began as a one-day protest after Rosa...