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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 1508, Michelangelo Buonagiolo stood at the base of the Sistine Chapel and looked up at the vast, empty ceiling above him. He was terrified....
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 1871, Horatio Spafford lost nearly everything in the Great Chicago Fire. Two years later, he sent his wife and four daughters ahead on a...
In 1939, contralto Marian Anderson was denied the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because of the color of her skin. The Daughters of...
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 July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Moon's surface, alarms started blaring. The onboard computer flashed 1202 and 1201...
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...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched across...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on a ship bound for England. He planned to join them later. Partway across the...
In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on stage at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna for the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He was almost...
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 2019, a team of Japanese scientists at the RIKEN Center achieved something remarkable. They placed a sample of carbon atoms under pressures exceeding 40...
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...
*Hacksaw Ridge* tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist medic who refused to carry a weapon into combat during World War II....
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...
In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, Desmond Doss stands before a military tribunal, refusing to touch a rifle. His fellow soldiers mock him. His commanding...
In 2012, marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder descended into the midnight zone of the ocean, more than a thousand meters below the surface, where sunlight...
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...
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...
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 2010, neuroscientist Yadin Dudai and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science set out to answer a question humanity has wrestled with for...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Dr. Barry Marshall faced a problem no amount of argument could solve. He was convinced that stomach ulcers were...
In 1984, Australian physician Dr. Barry Marshall faced a medical establishment that refused to believe him. He and his colleague Dr. Robin Warren had discovered...