History

Geronimo (1829-1909) was a courageous Apache leader and medicine man who stood up to…

Black Like Me: John Griffin colored his skin “black” and traveled to the South in an attempt to understand non-white life in America. As you might think, his experience, as told in Black Like Me, was devastating.

John Henry is the protagonist of a well-known African-American folk ballad. It describes John Henry’s battle with a steam drill, in which he crushed more rock than the machine but died “with his hammer in his hand.” Writers and artists see John Henry as a symbol of the worker’s doomed struggle against the machine, as well as the Black man’s tragic subjugation to white oppression and defiance of it.

Augusta Van Buren was born on 26 Mar 1884 and Adeline Van Buren was born on 26 Jul 1889 in NY, USA. On their own motorcycles, Adeline and Augusta sisters cycled 5,500 miles across the continental United States in 60 days, finishing on September 8, 1916. Following Effie Hotchkiss, who had completed a Brooklyn-to-San Francisco trip the year before with her mother, Avis, as a sidecar passenger, they became the second and third women to ride motorbikes across the continent.

Blanche Monnier, 25, was a typical socialite in Paris in 1876, racing to find a suitor before it was too late. She fell in love with an older, poorer lawyer whom her aristocratic mother despised and decided to marry him.

Lina Medina was born on September 23, 1933, in Ticrapo District, Peru, and is known for becoming the world’s youngest confirmed mother. She is a Peruvian woman who gave birth at the age of five years, seven months, and twenty-one days, making her the world’s youngest confirmed mother.

Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year-old schoolteacher, was the first person to successfully take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel on October 24, 1901

The 1950 NASCAR Racing Grand National season was the United States’ second season of professional stock car racing. The season began on February 5, 1950, at the Daytona Beach Road Course and lasted 19 races. On October 29, the season came to a close at Occoneechee Speedway.

Amelia Earhart was an American flyer who broke numerous records and advocated for women’s advancement in aviation. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland of the United States.

Many outlaws in the American Old West learned to avoid Stagecoach Mary, who was…