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On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
In the autumn of 1914, as the Western Front devoured young men by the thousands, Marie Curie — already the only person to hold Nobel...
In the spring of 1940, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen trips from freedom back into the slave-holding South — back into the very darkness she had escaped....
In the winter of 1942, a knock came at a farmhouse door in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village nestled in the mountains of south-central France....
In the winter of 1943, the sound of a buzzer echoed through a narrow house at Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom —...
In June 1752, Benjamin Franklin and his son William walked to an open field on the outskirts of Philadelphia, carrying a silk kite fitted with...
On the morning of October 6, 1536, guards led William Tyndale from the damp stone cells of Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a wooden stake...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing a Dodgers uniform with the number 42 on his back....
On July 4, 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog near his village in Alsace, suffering fourteen bite wounds on his hands,...
On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to Maryland's Eastern Shore — the very land from which she had escaped — to lead...
In the summer of 1940, hundreds of Jewish refugees crowded outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, desperate for transit visas that could carry them...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, wearing number 42, and became the first Black man to...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson sat across from Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in a office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn. Robinson, a...
In the autumn of 1943, a slim Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a carpenter's toolbox....
On February 18, 1943, twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich carrying a suitcase full of contraband. Not weapons. Not...
On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich's main hall carrying a suitcase full of leaflets. She was...