Robert Gould Shaw
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...
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Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs about U.S. History.
John Mercer Langston: a snapshot biography
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...
Photograph of Elsie and Lela Scott, 1910
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...
Clara’s Kindness
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...
Pa’s Tears
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 ...
Frederick Douglass: a snapshot biography.
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...
Sissieretta Jones: a snapshot biography.
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...
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote on Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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,...
Lucy Stone quote: “Half a century ago…
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...
Ida Tarbell: Standard Oil Company book origin
Quote Intro: Ida Tarbell wrote “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” to show the corruption and other nefarious activities of the Standard Oil ...