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Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs about U.S. History.

snapshot biographies

Robert Gould Shaw

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Biography In his early years, Robert Gould Shaw lived within the privileges of a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1837. As he enter...

snapshot biographies

John Mercer Langston: a snapshot biography

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

John Mercer Langston would become a man of many firsts. But before his accomplishments, he was born in Virginia in 1829. John was born to a mixed-race couple. H...

Black and white historical photos

Photograph of Elsie and Lela Scott, 1910

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Photograph of twin sisters, Elsie and Lela Scott. They were two of seventeen children of John and Julia Scott. The family migrated from Louisiana to Indiana and...

historical fiction short stories

Clara’s Kindness

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

My rescue came late into the evening, well after the sun had set and the stillness of night arose. It came in the figure of a thin white woman with long blond h...

historical fiction short stories

Pa’s Tears

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Pa has seen much in his years. His back shows the cruelty. While face wrinkles show toils and worries, the many hardships. And in his deep soulful eyes are all ...

snapshot biographies

Frederick Douglass: a snapshot biography.

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Upbringing & Early Years “I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and m...

snapshot biographies

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...

Quotes

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,...

Quotes

Lucy Stone quote: “Half a century ago…

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Lucy Stone quote: “Half a century ago women were at an infinite disadvantage in regard to their occupations. The idea that their sphere was at home, and o...

Quotes

Ida Tarbell: Standard Oil Company book origin

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Quote Intro: Ida Tarbell wrote “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” to show the corruption and other nefarious activities of the Standard Oil ...

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