Saint Patrick: A Pirate Story
There's much more to Saint Patrick than shamrocks, green hills, and snakes. His real tale is a...
Frederick Douglass: ‘A War Upon the Immortal Spirit’
Frederick Douglass, the famed orator and abolitionist, saw his life change in one afternoon in...
My Five Rules for Writing
My favorite canine writer, Snoopy of Peanuts fame, received a boatload of rejection slips in his...
Infernal Machines
On a misty night in October of 1863, the aptly named David, a small Confederate torpedo boat, set...
The Girl Who Named a Planet Over Breakfast
Venetia Burney was having breakfast on March 14, 1930, when her grandfather read aloud a newspaper...
God’s Fool
The young man rode his horse along the road that weaved through the lush countryside of Assisi,...
The Superman Origins Story
Superman started out as a villain. When two students from Glenview High School in Cleveland, Jerry...
Finding New Life in the Death Strip
An elderly man shoves two packages out of a fourth floor window, and then he crawls out and sits...
Brad Pitt, Take Notice
Sky Andrecheck's field of dreams is more like a field of data. His specialty is known as...