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On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before one hundred thousand spectators. Adolf Hitler had designed these Games...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to deport its nearly two hundred children. Janusz...
On April 10, 1938, the residents of St. Radegund, a small village in Upper Austria, cast their ballots in Hitler's plebiscite on the Anschluss —...
In the final years of his life, Rembrandt van Rijn had lost nearly everything. The Dutch master who once commanded the highest commissions in Amsterdam...
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the door of a small rented cottage on Oak Street in Daytona Beach, Florida, and welcomed five...
In May 1851, several ministers at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, argued that women were too delicate and intellectually inferior to deserve equal...
In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel locked himself away in his modest home on Brook Street in London. For twenty-four extraordinary days, from...
When a neighbor warned eighty-four-year-old Casper ten Boom that harboring Jews could mean his death, the Haarlem watchmaker did not hesitate. "It would be an...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen rescue missions from St. Catharines, Ontario, back into the slave-holding territory of Maryland's Eastern Shore. She had...
In the parlor of a modest New York City apartment in 1875, Fanny Crosby sat at a small writing desk, her sightless eyes turned toward...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...
In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch retaliated by selecting ten men from Block...
On July 15, 1944, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank sat in the cramped Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam and wrote what would become one of...
On February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester plowed through the icy black waters of the North Atlantic, carrying 902 soldiers and merchant mariners toward Greenland....
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, having accepted a teaching position at Union Theological Seminary arranged by...
On February 3, 1943, a German torpedo from U-223 struck the USAT Dorchester in the frigid North Atlantic, 150 miles from Greenland. Nine hundred and...
In May 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Some attendees urged the convention's president, Frances Gage, not...
Sengbe Pieh was born free. A rice farmer from Mende country in Sierra Leone, he was seized by slave traders in early 1839, shipped across...
In May 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins stood on the grounds of St. Beuno's College in North Wales and watched a kestrel ride the morning wind....
On August 4, 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the edge of elimination in Berlin. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two qualifying attempts...
In December 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced to the French Academy of Sciences that they had discovered a new element — radium. But the...
On August 28, 1945, in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson and made an extraordinary...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson trotted onto the diamond at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball in...
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium not for fireworks but for a farewell. Lou Gehrig stood at home plate, gaunt and...