People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
Bookcover image of Hunter Holmes McGuire: Stonewall Jackson's Doctor, by John W. Schildt.
The following is an English translation of three letters, to "Immortal Beloved," which were found after Beethoven's death. It is not known wheth...
Jackie Robinson's autobiography - I Never Had It Made - was published in 1972. It allows us to hear from Jackie, first hand, on what it was like...
Bookcover image of In Search of the Trojan War, by Michael Wood.
The day after Jackie Robinson wrote a letter of concern to Truman Gibson - civilian assistant to the Secretary of War - two officers had a conversatio...
Bookcover image of Jackie Robinson comic book. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, July 1951. Vol. 1, no. 5. From, By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson...
This document - from the U.S. National Archives - is part of the court-martial file against Lt. Jack Robinson. This is the same Jackie Robinson ...
Jackie Robinson was very sad when his mentor, Branch Rickey, let the Dodgers organization. During the 1950 spring-training season, he wrote a letter ...
This is the second page of Jackie Robinson's 1950 letter to Branch Rickey, following Rickey's departure from the Dodgers' organization. Robinson wrot...
When violence against African-Americans escalated during the 1960s, Jackie Robinson worried that harm would come to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After...
This image depicts the second page of a three-page telegram which Jackie Robinson sent to President Kennedy on the 15th of June, 1963. In it, Ro...
This image depicts the last page of a three-page telegram which Jackie Robinson sent to President Kennedy during June of 1963. He was urging pro...
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