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On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3: all enslaved people in the state were...
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On November 11, 1918, Private Arthur Brooks huddled in a muddy trench near Verdun, France. For four years, the Western Front had been a landscape...
On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3...
In the spring of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the Olympic Games as Britain's fastest man. Then he learned the 100-meter...
On October 17, 2010, a billion people around the world held their breath. For sixty-nine days, thirty-three miners had been trapped two thousand feet beneath...
In 1998, when Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic just off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, it was the local fishermen who responded first. They...
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners beneath two thousand feet of rock. For seventeen...
When Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition collapsed in 1916, he was forced to leave twenty-two men stranded on desolate Elephant Island while he sailed eight hundred...
In May 2019, billionaire Robert F. Smith stood at the podium during Morehouse College's commencement and made an announcement nobody expected. After delivering a standard...
In 2018, mountaineer Melissa Arnot became one of only a handful of American women to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. She described the moment...
In a small coastal town, where the sun once painted the sky in hues of gold at dawn and fishermen returned home with nets heavy with silver catches, a palpable sense of despair hung over the docks. The salty breeze...
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris when something shattered his ordinary evening....
In 1957, a young radio astronomer named Bernard Lovell stood beneath the massive dish of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, waiting. For years, skeptics...
In 1953, a young ornithologist named Don Merton traveled to Big South Cape Island off the coast of New Zealand to document a bird most...
On a July night in 2002, nine families huddled outside a pasture in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, waiting for news they feared would never come. Their...
In 2012, a wildfire swept through the foothills outside Colorado Springs, consuming over 340 homes in the Waldo Canyon blaze. When a rancher returned to...
In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce first introduced a motion to abolish the slave trade. It failed. He introduced it again the...
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop a jagged escarpment on Okinawa that soldiers had grimly nicknamed Hacksaw Ridge. His company...
On May 24, 1738, John Wesley walked through the streets of London as a defeated man. He had crossed the Atlantic to convert Native Americans...
In 1933, Dorothy Day opened the first Catholic Worker house in New York City's Lower East Side. The dining room had no reserved seating, no...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old named Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, and heard what she...
In 2019, a three-year-old boy named Christopher Ramirez wandered away from his family's home in Grimes County, Texas, following a neighbor's dog into dense woods....
In 2019, Maria Hernandez stood in the kitchen of Grace Community Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, staring at two casserole dishes and a slow cooker of...
On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito's voice came over the radio for the very first time. Across the Pacific theater, American soldiers in foxholes and...