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Steamboats Steamboats
Steamboats Sources Inventors.Robert Fulton gets well-deserved credit for building an economically useful combination of steam engine and hull design, but he was certainly not the first person to build a steamboat, nor even the first American to do so. The... Read more
Melvin B Tolson Melvin B Tolson
Melvin B(eaunorus) Tolson 1898–1966 Poet playwright, educator Taught While Developing Poetic Style Became Liberian Poet Laureate Received Richly Deserved Public Accolade Selected writings Sources A teacher and coach, Melvin Beaunorus Tolson became best known as a poet. He started... Read more
Joe Paterno Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno 1926- American college football coach Joe Paterno is a living legend. With his thick glasses, khaki slacks (always a bit too short), and his Penn State windbreaker, Paterno is one of the most recognizable coaches in this history of football—college or professional.... Read more
Stephen Crane Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane 1871-1900, American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, b. Newark, N.J. Often designated the first modern American writer, Crane is ranked among the authors who introduced realism into American literature. The 14th child of a Methodist minister, he grew up in Port Jervis, N.Y.,... Read more
Vacations Vacations
Vacations The vacation, understood either as time free from work and other obligations like school and family care, or as time away from home in leisure pursuits, was rare for almost all children until the twentieth century. And yet in the last half of the twentieth century vacations increasingly... Read more
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre , 1852-1931, marshal of France. He began his career as a military engineer in the French colonies and was appointed French commander in chief in 1911. Like other members of the French general staff, he underestimated German strength at the outbreak of World War... Read more
John Fitch John Fitch
John Fitch 1743-98, American inventor, b. Windsor, Conn. Fitch began (1785) work on the invention of the steam engine and steamboat and secured soon afterward the exclusive right to build and operate steamboats on the waters of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and Virginia. A trial run... Read more
Caroline Lucretia Herschel Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Caroline Herschel Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) is noted for her scientific annals in astronomy more than for her mathematical knowledge. Yet, while her accomplishments were heralded in astronomy, Herschel deserves recognition in both fields. She never received formal mathematical training, which... Read more
James Maxton James Maxton
Maxton, James (1885–1946). Socialist agitator. The son of a Glasgow schoolteacher, and initially a teacher himself, Maxton joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1904 and acquired a well-deserved reputation as a fiery but witty orator in the socialist cause. In 1916 he suffered... Read more

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