Rwandbruindi Enoch: Rwandan Hero

There is often the tendency when writing about heroes of the past and present to...

Thomas Clarkson’s question–and the answer that changed the world

There are moments in the lives of men and women that, in retrospect, shift the...

How horrifying photographs forced a king to give up his colony

It was near the turn of the century, after abolitionism had swept through Europe and...

William Wilberforce and the beauty of the abolitionist movement

In the annals of social reform movements, there is one that the pro-life movement has...

Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara: Heroic Disobedience

In the summer of 1940, Chiune Sugihara was one of the last foreign diplomats remaining...

Mamie Till: Refusing the Coverup

I knew that I could talk for the rest of my life about what had...

Albert Goering: The Brother Who Fought the Nazis

The name “Goering” instantly brings to mind the unarguably evil and grotesquely overweight Hermann Goering,...

Jan and Antonia Zabinski: The Zookeepers

As it turns out, a zoo is the perfect place to hide people. Before World...

Captain Witold Pilecki: The Auschwitz Volunteer

“Human beings were the most precious thing for Pilecki, and especially those who were oppressed....

Anita Goulden: The Angel of Piura

In 1958, a 38 year-old widow from Manchester arrived in Peru to visit her brother....