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On September 19, 1940, a Polish cavalry officer named Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited to be arrested. A German roundup was...
On the morning of March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the village of My Lai in...
In 1526, small volumes began appearing in English ports, hidden inside bales of cloth and sacks of grain. William Tyndale's English New Testament — translated...
In the summer of 1944, Raoul Wallenberg had every reason to stay home. At thirty-one, he was heir to one of Sweden's most prominent banking...
In the summer of 1940, Japanese Vice-Consul Chiune Sugihara looked out the window of his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, and saw hundreds of Jewish refugees...
In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...
On May 5, 1945, American soldiers scrambled to retreat down the four-hundred-foot Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa as Japanese forces overwhelmed their position. Dozens of wounded...
In early April 1945, Allied forces were closing in on Germany from every direction. The war would end in weeks. At Flossenburg concentration camp in...
In late July 1940, Chiune Sugihara, Japan's Vice-Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, found hundreds of Jewish refugees outside his consulate. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland and...
As a boy in Arbois, France, Louis Pasteur watched a man bitten by a rabid wolf being dragged to the local blacksmith. The only known...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-choked Potomac River during a...
Isaiah 10:14 records the Assyrian conqueror's arrogant declaration: "My hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people." This metaphor exposes the depth of human depravity when power corrupts the soul. The imagery is deliberately contemptuous. A child...
In December 1937, Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, and unleashed weeks of mass violence against civilians. While many foreign nationals evacuated, American missionary Minnie Vautrin...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-covered Potomac River during a...
On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and demanded, "Which one of you is Malala?" Then he fired...
The psalmist had known confinement—threading narrow mountain paths, hiding in cavern cracks and corners while fleeing Saul's persecution.
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...
In the autumn of 1943, a Polish social worker named Irena Sendler climbed into the back of an ambulance on Złota Street in Warsaw, carrying...
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 the winter of 1942, Vichy police arrived in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France, and demanded that Pastor André...
For decades, a quiet church canon named Nicolaus Copernicus climbed the tower adjoining Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland, studying the night sky with nothing more...
In October 1943, the Gestapo came for Irena Sendler. For months, the thirty-three-year-old Polish social worker had used her permit to inspect the Warsaw Ghetto...
In the winter of 1942, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his congregation in the small Protestant church of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a village perched on a...
At the Battle of Arbela, Persian forces mustered between five hundred thousand and one million soldiers—a staggering host arrayed in terrible might.