Walter grew up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri, in the early 1900’s. By age eight, he was selling his artwork to other children to earn spending money. His father thought his drawings were silly, but his mother thought he was Michelangelo. Walter dropped out of high...
Prisoners No. 66729 and 66730, sisters Betsie and Corrie, huddled under the small, dim light in the back of Barracks No. 28 so they could read their worn, smudged Bible, which they had miraculously smuggled into the prison. After standing for an hour at 4:30 AM that...
The baby boy was born to a slave woman in a one-room shanty on the Moses Carver plantation about the time the Civil War was ending in 1865. The exact date and year of his birth are unknown. Moses Carver, a German immigrant farmer in Diamond Grove, Missouri, had...
Washington D.C. has many monuments to heroes – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to name a few. There are not many Americans who remember the name Arland Williams or who are familiar with the monument in his honor. Air...
In the early 1870’s, the United Brethren Churches held their annual convention on the campus of Hartsville College in Hartsville, Indiana. One year the college president opened the conference by commenting, “We live in an exciting age, the age of inventions.” A United...
In 1834, although he had signed a contract with his publisher to produce a general history of the French revolution, the philosopher John Stuart Mill discovered that he was too busy with other commitments to tackle the work. So instead of writing the book himself,...
