Kwame Lillard and Elizabeth McClain, whose civil rights activism spans decades were leaders of the Nashville sit-ins, discuss their early experiences with resistance.
In 1944 Miriam Menkin performed the first laboratory fertilization of a human egg. But Menkin would soon be forced to leave the lab she loved, and test tube babies would remain decades away.
Drs. Howard and Georgeanna Jones postponed their retirement to open an in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic in Virginia and ended up presiding over the birth of America’s first test tube baby.
The wealthy businessmen and fellow New Yorkers who financed Cyrus Field's vision of a submarine cable across the Atlantic and served as the board of the company.
In June 1792, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous experiments with electricity.