While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...
Take that, Jesse Owens and your four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-run Berlin, or Babe Ruth and your 60 home runs ...
Jesse Owens was one the biggest Olympic heroes of all time. When he took four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, it put the lie to Hitler’s claims of Aryan superiority. After his ...
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.
A gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the first ever hosted in the United States, just sold for $545,371 at auction. The medal, which is smaller than its modern counterparts and made from ...
Olympic medals are displayed on a custom-designed trunk by Louis Vuitton at the Champions Park at Trocadero during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. © 2024 ...
Biles and Owens are both accomplished athletes in their own sport. The former is the most decorated gymnast of all time, having won 30 World Championships and 11 Olympic medals. Meanwhile ...
The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent In the summer of 1904 ...