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Anne Frank quote: “How wonderful it is…

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Quote: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank — “Anne Frank quote: ‘Ho...

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Tommy, The Dodgers, and Civil Rights

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Louisa May Alcott Quote on Housekeeping

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Louisa May Alcott quote: “Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” — Sources: Quote: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Robert Brothers, 1868 –...

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Anna & Her Sister

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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 ...

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Amelia Earhart Quotes

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Clara Barton Quotes

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Sissieretta Jones: a snapshot biography.

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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W.E.B. DuBois quote on studying history

Posted on December 18, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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; ...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe quote on Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

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,...

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