Chief Joseph: “I will fight no more forever”
“Hear me, my chiefs; my heart is sick and sad; Our chiefs are killed, The old men are all dead, It is cold and we have no blankets; The little children ar...
Category: Narrative Nonfiction
Historical narrative nonfiction short stories.
Harlem in the Great Depression: a snapshot.
Cold winds blow as flurries trickle down. A stiff frost bears down on Harlem. In winter’s early sunset comes rise a nascent darkness, a still gloom offset by be...
President Roosevelt gives speech after being shot
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to ...
Ida B. Wells challenges the narrative of lynchings
“I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes it...
James Peck, a freedom rider
Bruised, battered, his face and clothing covered with dry crusts of blood, James Peck staggered as he walked. He still felt a bit disoriented after being beaten...
Jacques Plante becomes first goalie in NHL to wear a face mask
On November 1, 1959, Jacques Plante’s nose was broken by a shot three minutes into a game against the New York Rangers. He was taken to the dressing room ...
Emma Edmonds, a Civil War spy
Emma Edmonds specialized in disguises. It was a way of life you could say, one which began in her teens. Back then, she lived on a farm in New Brunswick, Canada...
Robert de La Rochefoucauld: a biography.
“Chance is the most extraordinary thing you can have in your life and you should know how to take advantage of it.” – Robert de La Rochefoucauld — R...
Susie King Taylor becomes the first black army nurse in the Civil War
Susie King Taylor was born into slavery on a plantation in rural Georgia in 1848, which is where she lived until the age of seven, when she was allowed to move ...
Amelia Earhart learns to fly
“By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly,” said Amelia Earhart of her first flying experience. While Ame...