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There was a humble pastor in a small town who had a remarkable gift for connecting with people. Every Sunday, he would stand at the back of the church, shaking hands and sharing hugs with everyone. One day, as he...
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at...
On February 28, 1951, thirteen parents in Topeka, Kansas filed a lawsuit in federal court that would reshape the nation. Their complaint named the Board...
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...
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...
In 1939, contralto Marian Anderson was already celebrated as one of the greatest singers in the world. Conductor Arturo Toscanini had declared hers "a voice...
In 2019, a team of Japanese scientists at the RIKEN Center achieved something remarkable. They placed a sample of carbon atoms under pressures exceeding 40...
In 1929, a twenty-five-year-old German surgeon named Werner Forssmann was convinced that a thin tube could be safely guided into the chambers of a living...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium at the Mexico City Olympics — Smith with gold, Carlos with...
On September 20, 1973, more than 30,000 spectators packed the Houston Astrodome for a tennis match that carried the weight of something far bigger than...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that changed how we understand the human body. He found that bones are not static structures...
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...
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 September 1973, the Soviet KGB seized a hidden copy of a manuscript that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had spent nearly a decade writing in secret. His...
Long before television crews descended on Selma, Alabama, Amelia Boynton Robinson had been walking. Since the 1930s, she had gone door to door across Dallas...
In the 1950s, British scientists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley inserted tiny electrodes into squid nerve fibers to study how electrical signals travel through the...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall did something his colleagues considered reckless, perhaps absurd. He believed stomach ulcers — long blamed on stress,...
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...
In 2010, neuroscientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel made a remarkable discovery about the human brain. Dr. Yadin Dudai and his team...
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...
In 1984, Australian gastroenterologist Barry Marshall had a theory no one would believe. He was convinced that most stomach ulcers were caused by a spiral-shaped...
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...