Discover the remarkable life of Tecumseh… Tecumseh was a great and powerful Shawnee leader who rose to prominence at the turn of the nineteenth century, as US expansion pushed ever deeper into Native American lands west of the Appalachians. Tecumseh led not only his tribe but a grand confederation of tribes. He built alliances where
Discover the remarkable life of Mother Teresa… “Who do you think I am—Mother Teresa?” It’s a phrase people still reach for, decades after her death, whenever someone pushes them to be more selfless, more giving, or more virtuous than they’re willing to be. Her name has become shorthand for a kind of goodness most of
Discover the remarkable life of Carl Jung… Carl Jung was the formative voice of analytical psychology, a discipline he built around a deceptively simple question: why do people behave the way they do, and what makes each of us so distinct from one another? His ideas, such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, introversion and extraversion,
Discover the remarkable life of Harriet Beecher Stowe… Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for her activism for abolition and the book she wrote in support of that cause, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. That said, the woman behind that legacy was far more complicated than the single-book reputation suggests, one who has been lionized just as
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Discover the remarkable history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition… In 1800, less than 25 years after it became an independent nation, the United States faced a new threat on its western border. To the west lay a vast area known as the Louisiana Territory, which was under Spanish control. The United States had negotiated
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Discover the remarkable life of Sacagawea… Sacagawea is widely known as the Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark across the western frontiers of North America in the early 1800s. It was an extraordinary journey that took a small band of explorers thousands of miles into uncharted territory, across treacherous mountain passes, vast
Discover the remarkable life of Alexandra Kollontai… As the daughter of a decorated general in the Imperial Russian army, Alexandra Kollontai was a member of the elite from birth. From that comfortable perch, she might easily have lived out her days in the drawing rooms and social circles of St. Petersburg’s upper classes. Instead, she
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Discover the remarkable life of Emmeline Pankhurst… Emmeline Pankhurst remains one of the most pivotal women in history. For others, such words might be an overstatement, but for Emmeline Pankhurst, they are simply the truth. She came of age at a time when women had no voice in the affairs of their own country, and
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Discover the remarkable history of The Arab Spring… The Arab Spring began unexpectedly on December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit seller in the city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, committed suicide in a horrifying and public way. He doused himself in flammable liquid and then set himself on fire. Bouazizi had been
Discover the remarkable life of Calamity Jane… Calamity Jane was an icon of the Wild West, and she lived her life just as free and wild as the Wild West stage shows she later performed in. Part of this wildness was not by choice but born of necessity. Her parents both passed when she was
