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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....
In bone marrow transplantation, there comes a moment that defies every human instinct for self-preservation. Before a patient can receive the healthy marrow that will...
In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood at the top of the gymnastics world. She was the most decorated gymnast in history, the overwhelming...
In the winter of 1940, a Jewish woman knocked on the door of a stone parsonage in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains...
On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn, slipped on a pair of sunglasses, and walked toward...
In the 2010 film *The King's Speech*, Colin Firth portrays King George VI, a man who never wanted the throne and carried a crippling stammer...
In 1977, geologist Jack Corliss and a team aboard the submersible Alvin descended nearly eight thousand feet to the floor of the Pacific Ocean near...
In the forests of the American West, the lodgepole pine has developed a remarkable survival strategy. Its cones are sealed shut with a thick resin...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, Marian Anderson stood at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. She had not chosen this...
On January 23, 1960, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh climbed into the bathyscaphe *Trieste* and began their descent into the Mariana Trench...
Courage is often imagined as a grand act—like standing up to a giant or facing an overwhelming storm. Yet, the most profound displays of courage can be found in the quiet choices we make each day. Picture a mother rising...
In 1984, Australian physician Barry Marshall was convinced he had discovered the true cause of stomach ulcers — a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called *Helicobacter pylori*. The...
In the early 1990s, scientists sealed themselves inside Biosphere 2, a massive glass enclosure in the Arizona desert designed to replicate Earth's ecosystems. They controlled...
On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard stood in an operating room at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, preparing to attempt what...
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...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that could have ended his career. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he had...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched...
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...
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 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...
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...
On May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...
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...
In 1984, an Australian gastroenterologist named Barry Marshall faced a wall of skepticism. He and his colleague Robin Warren had discovered that stomach ulcers were...