Aug 28, 2020
John Locke, born August 29, 1632, made the first comprehensive case for individual rights, and America’s founders stood on his shoulders when declaring that “governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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Aug 24, 2020
For forty-four years, William Wilberforce fought to end slavery in Britain. Finally, in 1833—just three days before he died—he heard the joyous news that Britain would outlaw slavery in nearly all its colonies.
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Aug 14, 2020
Louis Pasteur’s groundbreaking science has saved countless lives and continues to do so today. He pioneered the development and use of vaccines, creating the first-ever vaccines for anthrax and rabies. His work was key in confirming the germ theory of disease, leading the British surgeon Joseph Lister to develop...
Aug 7, 2020
Sarah Breedlove (aka Madam C. J. Walker), a black woman born two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, began her career washing clothes and ended it as the founder of a cosmetics company—and a self-made millionaire. She was, in fact, the first female self-made millionaire in American history....