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,...
Forty miles from Lebourget Air Field in Paris, he began to see the flares. Thirty-three hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He was hoping to become the first pilot to make a solo...
As a young boy, Matthew Barnett had a dream for a church that would remain open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. His father, Tommy Barnett, the pastor of one of the three largest churches in America, inspired him to start an inner-city ministry in Los Angeles,...