Category: snapshot biography

“I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every mus...

Albert Einstein struggled to find a job coming out of college. Though his grades were average, he had been a disobedient student, telling jokes and cutting clas...

She wore pants. She went to medical school. She treated soldiers for the Confederate Army when she was a surgeon in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. Th...

Hiram Rhodes Revels was known for being a great orator. After a career as a minister and an educator, he entered political life with his election as alderman in...

Hannah Szenes once wrote, “There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to...

Born in 1907 in Springdale, PA, Rachel Carson grew up in the hills overlooking the Allegheny River. It was there that she fell in love with nature after many wa...

For about a decade around 1880, the national pastime in the U.S. was a sport called pedestrianism. Pedestrians, the term for athletes who competed in the sport,...

“When you’re poor, you grow up fast.” – Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, the daughter of unwed teenage par...

Helen Keller was blind, and she was deaf. But that didn’t stop her from pursuing a college degree at Radcliffe College and becoming the first deaf-blind p...

Miep met Jan Gies while they were working at a textile company in the Netherlands. She was a typist, he an accountant. They were friends first. But a few years ...