Samples of submitted works about people’s lives and experiences
The Poor Little Bird’s Wildest Adventure
In 1976, I was then ten years old young. My family was driven back to Masara, Maco, Davao del Norte from Suricon Mining, of Nonoc...
Speech to 13th International AIDS Conference
Speech given at the Opening ceremony of the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, July, 2000 “Hi, my name is Nkosi Johnson. I live in...
His Ears Cracked Kidnap Case
The victim’s attention to detail and good memory were the keys to solving the 1933 kidnapping of a wealthy Oklahoma City oilman. Charles F. Urschel...
General Enrique Adolfo Espinosa de los Monteros of Mexico
Enrique’s early days and from Spain to Mexico Enrique was born in Madrid?(Northern Spain) or really…on a boat while the family were leaving from Barcelona...
Eardley Erastus Hawks
Eardley Erastus Hawks was born in Mesa, Arizona Aug. 1896, the fifth child of Amos Joseph and Florence Julia Eardley Hawks.Amos Hawks was a restless...
Butin, Mary Ryerson
Mary Ryerson Butin, physician, born on a farm near Wilton, Iowa, 17th August, 1857. She battled and conquered much of the prejudice against women in...
Bobbie Burton Turnbull
Contrary to a bunch or silly articles I did not apply for the job with the original airline (1928-1929). I knew the Braniffs Paul and...
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
DEAR SON: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains...
A Truce with Myself
My name is Meriam I am a twenty-year old Tunisian girl. A tired soul with short-dark hair and brown eyes. I was born in a...
A Slave Girl’s Story
Kate Drumgoold was born as an enslaved person around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her autobiography, A Slave Girl’s story. It...
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