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In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
On the morning of March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the village of My Lai in...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-choked Potomac River during a...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and plunged into the ice-covered Potomac River during a...
On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and demanded, "Which one of you is Malala?" Then he fired...
Between 1958 and 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly compiled one of the most devastating testimonies of the twentieth century. Working from hidden notebooks across the Soviet...
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. What he saw...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
In June 1984, Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and raised a petri dish to his lips. The...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...
In 1999, Dr. Denis Mukwege opened Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a city in eastern Congo scarred by decades of armed conflict. He expected to practice...
On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone at his post inside Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet command bunker south of Moscow. Just after...
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....
In the summer of 1973, Soviet secret police hauled in Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, a sixty-seven-year-old typist in Leningrad, and interrogated her for days. They wanted one...
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate...
At 9:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93....
On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta's Georgia Dome, barely able to put weight on...
In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall faced a wall of medical orthodoxy. He and his colleague Dr. Robin Warren at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle shot outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed to...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. No...