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19 illustrations — Modern-day illustrations from current events and culture
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, Germany, having just spoken about God's forgiveness to a nation crushed by guilt....
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In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, Germany, speaking about God's forgiveness to a crowd still hollowed out by war....
In 1951, fourteen-year-old James Harrison lay in a hospital bed in New South Wales, Australia, recovering from major chest surgery that required thirteen liters of...
On November 19, 1969, Edson Arantes do Nascimento — known to the world as Pelé — stepped to the penalty spot at Maracanã Stadium in...
On a September morning in 1948, a thirty-eight-year-old Albanian nun stepped through the gates of the Loreto convent in Calcutta and walked into the Motijhil...
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London city hall....
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 the 1960s, most Americans with intellectual disabilities lived hidden from public view — tucked away in overcrowded state institutions or kept quietly at home....
In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin positioned a fine fiber of hydrated DNA before an X-ray beam in her laboratory at King's College London. The exposure...
In 1988, a retired stockbroker named Nicholas Winton sat quietly in the studio audience of the BBC program *That's Life!*, hosted by Esther Rantzen. He...
On a sweltering August morning in 1963, twenty-one chartered trains rolled into Washington, D.C., alongside more than two thousand buses and ten chartered airliners. Over...
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....
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street in Greensboro,...
On May 2, 1963, the doors of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama swung open, and a stream of children poured into the streets....
On the morning of November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges climbed out of a federal car and walked toward the front doors of William Frantz...
Shortly after midnight on September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone in the commander's chair at Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet military bunker south...
In the winter of 1960, Diane Nash and dozens of Fisk University students sat down at segregated lunch counters across downtown Nashville. They ordered coffee....
In 1987, a twenty-seven-year-old Harvard medical student named Paul Farmer hiked into the Central Plateau of Haiti, where the village of Cange clung to a...