People and places
The stories of United States.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Daniel Kahneman
The boy who hid from the Gestapo in Paris and became a researcher who exposed the blind spots and irrationality of the human mind. The Israeli psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics and forever changed the way we make decisions.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
One modest book, written by a determined woman, managed to ignite a bloody civil war. The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" tore away the mask of hypocrisy from the institution of American slavery.
Frederick Douglass
Born as another man's property, he secretly learned to read and write and became the moral voice of an entire nation. The slave who escaped his chains and conquered stages around the world as a brilliant orator fought uncompromisingly for freedom.
5 place links in this collection
- Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Museum), 77 Forest Street, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Grave of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Phillips Academy Cemetery, Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Cedar Hill – Frederick Douglass House (National Historic Site), 1411 W Street SE, Washington, D.C., USA
- Tomb of Frederick Douglass, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, USA