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In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, Andrew Garfield portrays Desmond Doss, a real-life Army medic who refused to carry a weapon into World War II...
In 1611, a seventeen-year-old painter named Artemisia Gentileschi was assaulted by her tutor in Rome. The trial that followed was public and humiliating — she...
In 1611, a seventeen-year-old Italian painter named Artemisia Gentileschi was assaulted by her tutor, a fellow artist her father had trusted. The trial that followed...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow in a...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there comes a moment near the end of the long journey when Frodo Baggins simply cannot go...
*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....
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 1873, Horatio Spafford put his four daughters on a ship bound for England. He planned to join them after finishing some business in Chicago....
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 C.S. Lewis's *The Horse and His Boy*, young Shasta finds himself alone on a mountain pass in total darkness. He is exhausted, lost, and...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch teaches his son Jem one of the most profound lessons about courage in all of American...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that still haunts readers over a century later. Jean Valjean, the former convict, has rebuilt his...
In *The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, Aragorn leads a battered remnant of soldiers to the Black Gate of Mordor. They...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch tells his children about the bravest person he ever knew. It wasn't a soldier or a...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch tells his children something they don't yet understand. After the cantankerous old Mrs. Dubose dies, he...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes modern medicine. He found that human bones are not static structures — they...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch offers his children a definition of courage that has echoed through generations. After the death of...
Each autumn, monarch butterflies launch themselves on a journey that defies everything we know about caution. Weighing less than a paperclip, they fly up to...
In 1620, the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi completed her masterpiece, *Judith Slaying Holofernes*. Where other artists of her era depicted Judith as delicate and detached...
In 1929, a twenty-five-year-old German surgical resident named Werner Forssmann did something his colleagues called insane. Convinced that a thin catheter could safely reach the...
In *The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*, there is a moment that still makes my throat tighten. The fortress of Helm's Deep is...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean has rebuilt his life from nothing. Once a convict, he is now Monsieur Madeleine — a respected mayor,...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Jem Finch despises the cantankerous Mrs. Dubose, who hurls insults at him from her porch every afternoon....
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have changed medicine overnight. Working in Vienna General Hospital's maternity...