Trailblazers: Simone Biles
Meet History's trailblazers and get inspired by the true stories of people who changed the world. In August, 2016, American gymnast Simone Biles wo...
View full detailsMeet History's trailblazers and get inspired by the true stories of people who changed the world. In August, 2016, American gymnast Simone Biles wo...
View full detailsAt age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out...
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View full detailsOn November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...
View full detailsMalala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called att...
View full detailsBorn into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she marr...
View full detailsClarissa “Clara” Barton was a shy girl who grew up to become a teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. At a time when few women worked outside the home,...
View full detailsAlthough Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and h...
View full detailsBorn in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unst...
View full detailsBorn a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and ch...
View full detailsWhat good is poetry? Poetry awakens your inner world and makes al or feeling come alive. Poetry lights up your imagination and brings you home to y...
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