1912 Olympics – Jim Thorpe perseveres to win gold
It was the summer of 1912, the Olympics in Sweden. Jim Thorpe, a Native American from the Sac and Fox tribe, was representing the U.S. in four events, including...
Tag: U.S. History
Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs about U.S. History.
Victoria Woodhull – first woman to run for President
“There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the ...
The short story of aviator Bessie Coleman
“The air is the only place free from prejudices. I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the Race needed to be represented along this most ...
President Roosevelt gives speech after being shot
“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 ...
Alice Stebbins Wells – first U.S. woman with arrest powers
Alice Stebbins Wells was born in Kansas and educated at Oberlin College, where she studied the need for female police officers. She then went to the Hartford Th...
A snapshot biography of Maggie Lena Walker
Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a former slave and cook, was the first woman to charter a bank in the United States in 1902. The bank offered loans and mort...
Chief Red Cloud: “We want peace and love.”
Quote: “I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We ...
A snapshot of life from New York, circa 1910.
A snapshot of life from New York City, circa 1910. — A snapshot of life from New York, circa 1910 source: photograph taken by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Mail carrier in Los Angeles, circa 1915
Photograph of a mail carrier in Los Angeles, circa 1915. Source: Bain News Service, Publisher. Los Angeles woman mail carrier. [Between and Ca. 1920] Photograph...
Inez Milholland – A Snapshot Biography
“I am trying to discharge my own individual debt to society by improving the conditions of life for women and children.” — In her early college years at V...
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