By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Hannah More was born February 2, 1745, in Gloucestershire (near Bristol), England. Her father, a schoolteacher, encouraged More’s...

By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Hannah More was born February 2, 1745, in Gloucestershire (near Bristol), England. Her father, a schoolteacher, encouraged More’s...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, Jewish family in Germany. Though born in Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879, he spent...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT F.W. de Klerk was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 18, 1936. After obtaining a law degree from Potchefstroom...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT On this day in history, Frederick Douglass escaped slavery — a day he would later describe as the day his “free life began.”...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Earl Warren may not be a household name, but the effects he had on our country are felt to this day. Born to a Norwegian and...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Henry David Thoreau was born July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. Born into a family of pencil makers, this perhaps fostered...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Victor Hugo was born into a world of war on February 26, 1802, in Besançon, France. His father, a general in Napoleon’s army,...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Henrik Ibsen was a revolutionary without ever picking up a sword. He was born March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway. Gripped by...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT William Faulkner, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, owes a great deal of success to his upbringing. Born William...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT Mahatma (“the great soul”) Gandhi exemplifies the power of a peaceful leader. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1869, Gandhi...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT and JOHN COTTON RICHMOND Women are leading the charge against human trafficking. Today, on International Women’s Day, the Human...
By: MEGAN ABRAMEIT and JOHN COTTON RICHMOND Women are leading the charge against human trafficking. Today, on International Women’s Day, the Human...