The Courage and Conviction of Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York was born on December 13, 1887, in a two-room log cabin in Pall Mall, Tennessee. He was the third of eleven children in a family that relied on...
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Kady Brownell: Defying Gender Norms in the Civil War
Kady Brownell Snapshot Biography Born in 1842 in a British Army tent in Kaffraria, South Africa, to a French mother and a Scottish father, Kady Brownell’s...
Robert Gould Shaw
Biography It is desirable to paint a pure picture of a man as special in history as Robert Gould Shaw. He deserves that for the sacrifices he made during the U....
Colonel Charles Young: Short Story Biography
Charles Young was born to parents enslaved in Mays Lick, Kentucky, in 1864. In early 1865, his father escaped to nearby Ripley, Ohio. This flourishing small tow...
A snapshot biography of Doris Miller
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Doris Miller, or Dorie as his friends called him, was working as a mess attendant, serving breakfast and collecting laundr...
Sadao Munemori. A snapshot biography.
Sadao Munemori was born in 1922 in Los Angeles, California, to Japanese immigrant parents and grew up in nearby Glendale, where he fell in love with swimming an...
William Harvey Carney: “the old flag never touched the ground!”
“Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!” – William Harvey Carney — Biography William Harvey Carney was born into enslaveme...
“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart”
Quote: “So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that ...