Famous Figures
The Surprising College Studies of U.S. Presidents
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Though exceptions do exist — Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson had no formal education at all — most U.S. presidents have earned at least an undergraduate degree. And in the majority of cases, their fields of study were well aligned with the role of POTUS. Subjects such as history, political science, law, and economics have long been common choices for a career in politics, while earlier leaders often followed a broad liberal arts education. But not all U.S. presidents chose subjects that were a natural fit for a future in the Oval Office. Here are ...Read More
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Famous FiguresFact3Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife in Morse code.
Some proposals are more memorable than others. Take, for instance, Thomas Edison’s second marriage, which began in an appropriately scientific manner when the inventor proposed to Mina Miller via Morse…
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Famous FiguresFact9Maya Angelou was one of San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductors.
As a teenager during World War II, Maya Angelou took a job that might seem unexpected for the future renowned author: working as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. She…
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Famous FiguresFact13Frederick Douglass was once the most photographed American.
Frederick Douglass once said, “It is evident that the great cheapness and universality of pictures must exert a powerful, though silent, influence upon the ideas and sentiment of present and…
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Famous FiguresFact5Ronald Reagan had a space-based defense plan known as Star Wars.
Before there was Space Force, there was Star Wars. No, not the sci-fi franchise set in a galaxy far, far away, but the space-based defense plan proposed by Ronald Reagan…
