Anne Frank quote: “How wonderful it is…
Quote: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank — “Anne Frank quote: ‘Ho...
Author: Historical Snapshots
Tommy, The Dodgers, and Civil Rights
People say the midlife years are hardest. When grey hair strands and deeper wrinkles shepherd in new feelings, and grief becomes all too consuming. Tommy couldn...
Louisa May Alcott Quote on Housekeeping
Louisa May Alcott quote: “Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” — Sources: Quote: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Robert Brothers, 1868 –...
Anna & Her Sister
Anna Stein took her first breath on a makeshift bed in a crowded Warsaw Ghetto apartment in 1940. At the time, not even a year had passed since the Nazis took o...
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln quote from letter to Albert Hodges “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did ...
Amelia Earhart Quotes
Featured quote: “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things li...
Clara Barton Quotes
Clara Barton Quotes “It was May—the cherry trees were in bloom. For the first time in three years I had been able to sit for an evening among a company of perso...
Sissieretta Jones: a snapshot biography.
Sissieretta Jones Biography “I have a voice and I am striving to win the favor of the public by honest merit and hard work.” – Sissieretta Jon...
W.E.B. DuBois quote on studying history
Quote: “What do we care about peoples that lived a thousand, two thousand, ten thousand years ago? It does interest you, because no man lives to himself; ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote on Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: “I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and broken-hearted, with the sorrows and injustice I saw,...