Frederick Douglass: Slavery to Freedom
Born a slave in 1818, his mistress began teaching Frederick Douglass to read until her husband stopped her. So, he self-taught, and escaped to...
The Life and Struggles of Winston Churchill: Winston at the Helm
Churchill became British Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. "At last I had authority to give directions over the whole scene (of the war),"...
Eumenes of Cardia
We know nothing of Eumenes’ early life before he became a friend of Philip II of Macedon (342 BC) and then his secretary,...
St. Peter, the First Pope
Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but...
Harriet E. Adams Wilson
She was born of two worlds and two complexions. Her mother, unwilling or unable to be burdened by the scapegrace of her multiracial offspring,...
The Life and Struggles of Winston Churchill: World War One
Winston found his post as Home Secretary depressing, but his next task in government as First Lord of the Admiralty brought him even greater...
Eye of Dawn : The Story of Mata Hari, Part 1
This is the first in a two part expose of the much maligned Mata Hari, a woman far ahead of her time in staking...
Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (1849-1896)
A ground breaker in her time, Eliza Nicholson was the first woman publisher of a daily newspaper in the Deep South.
Eliza Nicholson was the...
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Governor of Puerto Rico
In May 1928, President Hoover appointed Theodore Roosevelt Jr. to the position of Governor General of Puerto Rico. Roosevelt was in Vietnam at the...
The Mistress of the Duke of Orleans, Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Daly the Tall, Mistress of the Duke of Orleans, Grace Dalrymple Elliott was a courtesan to royalty.
An eighteenth-century beauty, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, was the...