Williamina Fleming – A Snapshot Biography
In the late 1870s, Williamina Fleming was in her early 20s and a recent U.S. immigrant from Scotland. She had come married with a child, but her husband abandon...
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Our collection of biographical and historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs about U.S. History.
Peter Jackson – A Snapshot Biography
Peter Jackson was one of the best boxers of his time, winning the Australian heavyweight title in 1886. Though a fighter by profession, he was calm, collected,...
Ida Tarbell – A Snapshot Biography
“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for ri...
Callie Campbell: “No, I don’t like it very much.”
“No, I don’t like it very much.” – Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when...
Prudence Crandall opens a school for Black girls
“She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled –, ‘lady-like,’ as people said in the e...
Supreme Court Justice Byron White
Byron White was humble and he was studious and he had the work ethic of one who grew up in a small Colorado town. Which was Wellington in his case. And it was h...
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...
A snapshot biography of Julia Morgan
People called her Miss Morgan. And Miss Morgan was just five feet tall, slender, dressed in drab, fragile looking. There was something Quakerish about her peopl...
Ruth Graves Wakefield invents the chocolate chip cookie
“In August of 1930, Mr. Wakefield and I bought a lovely old Cape Cod house, built in 1709 on the outskirts of Whitman, Massachusetts. At one time it was used as...
Quote from Harriet Tubman: “I was free…
Quote: “I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a strang...
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