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Category: Narrative Nonfiction

Historical narrative nonfiction short stories.

Narrative Nonfiction

Chief Joseph: “I will fight no more forever”

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

“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...

Narrative Nonfiction

Harlem in the Great Depression: a snapshot.

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

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...

Narrative Nonfiction

President Roosevelt gives speech after being shot

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

“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 ...

Narrative Nonfiction

Ida B. Wells challenges the narrative of lynchings

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“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...

Narrative Nonfiction

James Peck, a freedom rider

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

Narrative Nonfiction

Jacques Plante becomes first goalie in NHL to wear a face mask

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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 ...

Narrative Nonfiction

Emma Edmonds, a Civil War spy

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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...

Narrative Nonfiction

Robert de La Rochefoucauld: a biography.

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“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...

Narrative Nonfiction

Susie King Taylor becomes the first black army nurse in the Civil War

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

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 ...

Narrative Nonfiction

Amelia Earhart learns to fly

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“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...

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