Captain John Parker and 77 armed Americans stood on Lexington Common on what revolutionary Samuel Adams proclaimed “a glorious morning for America.” It was April 19, 1775. The “shot heard ‘round the world,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson later called it, was about to ignite the American Revolution and change world history forever. Parker was 45 years old and riddled with …
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William H. Emory shaped the United States like few Americans before or since. The U.S. Army officer fought to expand the physical shape of the nation in the Mexican-American War. Emory later defied local and family sentiment in his home state of Maryland, rejecting offers from the Confederacy. Instead, he fought for the Union in the Civil War. MEET THE …
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The Apollo 11 moon landing was one giant leap for womankind. Credit Margaret Hamilton, a 32-year-old mother and computer whiz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote the software that placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969. She also worked on the five moon-landing missions that followed. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO CREATED AIR …
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