Not revered as an author during her lifetime, Jane Austen is now considered one of Britain’s greatest writers…
19th Century
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Blind and deaf Helen Keller was wild and unteachable until Anne Sullivan found a way.
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A man in Maryland may have just identified a previously unknown series of photographs of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession in 1865.
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The movie “12 Years a Slave” tells the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and enslaved.
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Read some of Mark Twain’s best quotes…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is a touchstone in American history…
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The intriguing life of the man behind the Nobel Prize…
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Son of sharecroppers, Frank Gannett started with a paper route and rose to become a media mogul.
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Helen Keller changed perceptions of what a disabled person could achieve.
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One hundred years ago today, Clara Barton died, leaving behind an enormous humanitarian legacy.