Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966) was a South African politician, psychologist, and journalist, widely regarded as the primary architect of...
The notion that children raised in two-parent households are more likely to grow up to be “better people” is often supported by sociological and psychological...
Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, known as Al-Qurtubi, was born in 1214 in Córdoba, in Al-Andalus (present-day Spain). Córdoba at...
Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332 – March 17, 1406) was a towering intellectual figure whose groundbreaking ideas continue to resonate across disciplines. Born in Tunis...
Victor Schœlcher (July 22, 1804 – December 25, 1893) was a French abolitionist, politician, writer, and intellectual whose tireless efforts led to the abolition of...
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a towering and controversial figure in antebellum American politics, renowned for his intellect, oratory,...
William Lodewyk Crowther (1817–1885) was a Tasmanian politician, surgeon, and naturalist, born in Haarlem, Netherlands. His family moved to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in...
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799), was a polymath whose extraordinary talents as a composer, violinist, conductor, and fencer...
Louis Delgrès was a revolutionary military officer and abolitionist born on August 2, 1766, in Saint-Pierre, Martinique. A free man of color, he was the...