Mata Hari was a Dutch dancer who made a name for herself in France. People everywhere knew...
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl whose life was cut short in the Holocaust. During World War...
Desiderius Erasmus wasn’t your typical Renaissance scholar. He was Dutch, a Catholic priest, and a humanist who...
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wasn’t trained as a scientist. He was a Dutch businessman from Delft who just...
Walt Whitman was an American poet who bridged the gap between the Transcendentalists and the more down-to-earth...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or FDR as most people called him, was the 32nd President of the United...
Thomas Alva Edison was one of those rare people who changed the shape of everyday life—and he...
Pope Urban II led the Roman Catholic Church from 1088 to 1099. In 1096, he made a...
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician—and people often call him the founder of modern philosophy....
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) always sparks debate in British history. Some folks see him as a champion of...
