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In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone parsonage in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains...
In April 1862, Victor Hugo published *Les Misérables* from his exile on the island of Guernsey, where political banishment from France had given him years...
In 1660, a tinker-turned-preacher named John Bunyan stood before magistrates in Bedfordshire, England, charged with holding unlicensed religious services. The sentence was simple: stop preaching,...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, wearing a white execution shirt. He and...
In late August 1741, George Frideric Handel received a libretto from Charles Jennens — a carefully assembled text drawn entirely from the King James Bible...
During basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the men of Company B, 77th Infantry Division, wanted Private Desmond Doss gone. They harassed him relentlessly...
On May 10, 1873, a small boat deposited a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest onto the rocky shore of the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai, Hawaii. Father Damien...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, dressed in a white execution shroud. He...
On September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the German roundup he knew was coming. While...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, escaping a Germany that was tightening its grip on every conscience...
In November 1900, at a small experimental station outside Havana, Cuba, Private John Kissinger stood before Major Walter Reed and spoke words that stunned the...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers surrounded the Dom Sierot orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and ordered its nearly two hundred children deported. Their director,...
On the gray dawn of April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt on the wooden floor of Flossenbürg concentration camp and prayed. The thirty-nine-year-old German pastor...
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell lay dying on a narrow cot in the Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China. The man who had electrified...
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer stepped off a river steamer onto the banks of the Ogooué River in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa. He was...
On January 31, 1865, the floor of the United States House of Representatives erupted. After months of intense lobbying by President Abraham Lincoln and his...
On the morning of January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln shook hands for three hours at the traditional New Year's Day reception in the White House....
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei pressed his eye to a telescope in Padua, Italy, and aimed it at Jupiter. What he...
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...
In the winter of 1454, inside a workshop on Mainz's Christophstraße, Johannes Gutenberg pressed inked metal type against a sheet of dampened vellum. Letter by...
On July 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln gathered his cabinet in the White House and read aloud a draft document that would reshape American history —...
In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble sat in the observer's chair of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena, California. For years...
In the spring of 1905, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk sat at his desk in the Swiss Federal Patent Office in Bern, reviewing applications for electromagnetic...
In 1660, a traveling tinker and lay preacher named John Bunyan was arrested near the village of Lower Samsell in Bedfordshire, England, for conducting a...