Cave of Swimmers in the Valley of Pictures
There is a rock shelter wall in one of the driest deserts on Earth on which human figures are depicted with limbs bent as though they are swimming through water...
Author: Historical Snapshots
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Intro The story of Henry Ossawa Tanner begins in the U.S. just before the start of the Civil War and ends shortly before the beginning of World War II. Througho...
April 18th, 1906
It was sudden. One moment we’re having breakfast around our small wooden kitchen table. And the next, Grandma’s face goes pale. Everything around us is sh...
James Madison and the Bill of Rights
James Madison stood about five feet four and weighed scarcely a hundred pounds. He was pale, frail, and a hypochondriac, though his ailments were quite real, an...
President Abraham Lincoln
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created equal and free.R...
The Day the Mona Lisa Disappeared
A painter named Louis Béroud walked into the Salon Carré of the Louvre to sketch the Mona Lisa on Tuesday morning, August 22, 1911. Instead, he found four iron ...
The Statue of Liberty Comes to America
The statue that would become one of the most famous in the world arrived in New York Harbor on the morning of June 17, 1885. The ship that carried her, the Fren...
The Cinnamon Tin
Mama always smelled like cinnamon. She kept a tin of cinnamon drops in her apron pocket and handed them out like they were medicine for every kind of problem. S...
Eunice Newton Foote: Pioneer of Climate Science
In the summer of 1856, a woman working in a home laboratory in Seneca Falls, New York, became the first known scientist to demonstrate that carbon dioxide could...
Abraham Lincoln Quote Print
On March 4, 1865, President Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address as the Civil War neared its end. The speech is considered by some to be one of the mo...