Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson working on the Declaration of Independence, The story of the American Revolution is endlessly fascinating - the remarkable people, the reluctance and hesitation of the colonists, opportunities missed by the British. The great 19th century historian, George Bancroft, wrote. "The strength of patriotism, however it might seem to slumber, was ready to break forth in every crisis of danger, as a beam of light ceases to be invisibl

Trapped on an ice-flow with no hope of rescue, where do you turn? For Shackleton, the answer was to the Bible. He carefully sliced out a couple of chapters from Job and Psalm 23 to take with him on what was going to be an impossible journey. Where would you turn? Learn more about the Bible here (scroll down for the Story of the Bible).

America's Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Baltimore, September 14, 1814 American History On this day in 1814, patriot and...

World Trade Center on the verge of collapse, September 11, 2001. The anniversary of September 11th brings to mind a story a financial services executive told me twenty years ago. He was running a morning meeting at the World Financial Center across from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Seeing what was happening at the Trade Center, he said to his group, the elevators are going to be overwhelmed, we're going to get separated. When I get downstairs, I'm going to he

Dump Camp, October 27, 1915 This is one of Shackleton's outstanding leadership moments as described by Worsley in his 1931 book,...

Here's Shackleton's version in South ... "The attack of the ice reached its climax at 4 p.m. ... The decks were breaking upwards and the...

Endurance , October 1915, colorized. In the early pages of his 1931 book, Endurance , Frank Worsley gives a vivid account of how the...

Worsley's Endurance ... " Within the ship, to counteract the depression caused by darkness, we had a particularly brilliant scheme of...

From Worsley's Endurance ... "Shackleton had a genius - it was neither more or less than that - for keeping those about him in high...

Worsley, Endurance ... "... I remember looking at each one of the company present, and trying to image how he would feel had he heard...

Shackleton's outstanding trait that leaps off the page of his Endurance journal, was, as Worsley puts it, his "characteristic...

Worsley writing in his 1931 book, Endurance , about his July 13, 1915 conversation with Shackleton and Wild about the ship inevitably...

Frank Wild, who Shackleton regarded as a "second self," said, "'Yes, but we are not going to let the ice get us. The poor little Endurance...

From Sir Edmund's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey ... "Most of us have a hero or two that we openly or secretly admire, even if...

Edmund Hillary's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey  by F. A. Worsley, June 28, 1976... "I would venture to guess that if a survey...

My great, great grandfather's Bible purchased in New York City in 1853. My interest in the Apostle Paul was triggered by a question...

Houses of Parliament before 1834 In the fall of 1774, the colonists sent a petition to George III explaining the contentious issues from...