Overview :In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil right... Read More
Overview :Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life w... Read More
Overview :Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading sys... Read More
Overview :Though much of his early life remains a mystery, Blackbeard most likely began his life as Edward Teach in the sailing port of Bristol, Engla... Read More
Overview :The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery... Read More
Overview :Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to... Read More
Overview :Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo trav... Read More
Overview :Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he ... Read More
Overview :Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed... Read More
Overview :Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His ... Read More
Overview :Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change tha... Read More
Overview :He came. He saw. He conquered. Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy politician, an impressive orator, and a brave soldie... Read More
Overview :Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement.... Read More
Overview :No one knew the boy they called Jumping Badger would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull... Read More
Overview :Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also be... Read More
Overview :Discover why Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, became one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the twentieth century As... Read More
Overview :Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family's w... Read More
Overview :Based on The New York Times Best-Selling series, this timeline of world history gives a fresh take on global events, from King Tut to Malala... Read More
Overview :As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic... Read More
Overview :Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the c... Read More