Rachel Pfeiffer

This Founding Father improved the quality of life for patients with mental health issues and initiated what is ...

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams's open-heart surgery saved a life and revolutionized modern surgical practices.

“The most important and beautiful gift one human being can give to another is, in some way, to ...

Visitors to 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition were awed by the size of George Ferris’s Wheel.

The library proposed by Benjamin Franklin and those that followed were instrumental in improving the intellectual lives of ...

People today likely remember the “Peanuts” TV specials better than Charles Schulz’s comic strips. He wrote the script ...

The telegraph revolutionized communication in 1844, and inventors everywhere raced to improve upon it. In November 1874, Alexander ...

The cruel Pyrenees Mountains stared down at Virginia Hall in November 1942. As a spy for Britain’s Special ...

As night fell, the gunfire ceased. Clara Barton had been nursing soldiers since the Battle of Antietam began, ...

In 1887, Nellie Bly boarded the boat with the other patients bound for Blackwell’s Island, now known as ...

The vast prairie stretched in front of the Lewis and Clark expedition, teeming with life and promising new ...

Boom! Canon fire echoed across the state of New York on October 26, 1825. Men listened carefully at ...

A plane buzzed over the Black Hills of South Dakota in the summer of 1927. It swooped and ...

President Abraham Lincoln had a great deal on his mind in the summer of 1862. The Civil War ...

“All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, ‘There ...

“The whole trend of your mind seemed to be towards big things,” Andrew Carnegie’s childhood friend Tom David ...

“I have got so much to do and life is so short, I am going to hustle,” 21-year-old ...

The bustling streets of a prosperous town in colonial America featured a variety of homes, businesses, and shops. ...