We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.
Miles (Myles) Standish was a British military man who was born in Lancashire around 1584. He assisted the Pilgrims.
Mollie Steimer was born in Russia on the 21st of November, 1897. Living in New York, she protest America's involvement in WWI and was deported, by the...
Not a main tourist destination, Molokai is famous for the work of a Belgian priest, Father Damien de Veuster, who cared for patientswith Leprosy.
The president himself designed the landscaped grounds where thirteen trees, from his lifetime, still survive.
Have a look at this helpful book - Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman - by W. Montgomery Watt.
Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.
After the war, POWs who had been incarcerated in Japanese camps all told the same story about Mutsuhiro (Matsuhiro) Watanabe - whom prisoners called "...
Dr. Robert O. Wilson, born in the Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing), stays to help victims of a massacre while others flee to save their own lives.
This sketch of Naoetsu Camp 4 - created from memory, after the war was over - is from "A Bridge Across the Pacific Ocean" (a Japanese-language book).
On his way to the Battle of Marengo, where Napoleon defeated Austria, the First Counsel of France had to traverse the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass. Jacque...
This image depicts From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909.
According to the National Park Service, Nathanael Greene was born in Potowomut, Rhode Island, on July 27, 1742.
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