by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People
Everybody in town knew that Harlan Sanders made great fried chicken because he sold it at the gas station he operated in Corbin, Kentucky. But in 1955, when the new interstate highway system passed him by, Sanders knew that traffic at his hometown business was bound...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People
Believe it or not, the man who wrote the song God Bless America was born in Russia! That’s right, Irving Berlin, one of America’s greatest songwriters, didn’t move to America until he was five years old. Berlin wrote some of America’s favorite...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People, Inventions, Sports
In 1891, while he was teaching at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, James Naismith received instructions from his boss. Naismith was given 14 days to come up with an indoor game that students could play during the harsh New England winters. So,...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People, Women in History
In 1892, Bessie Coleman was born in a very small town called Atlanta, Texas (It’s not to be confused with Atlanta, Georgia, which is a very big town!). Bessie was the 10th of 13 children. When she was six, she went to school in a one-room schoolhouse where she...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People
From the time he was a child, Walt Disney loved to draw. At first, he wanted to draw cartoons for newspapers, but as a young man, he discovered his love of animation, so he started making short cartoon movies in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Eventually, Walt...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People, Inventions
First, Wilbur and Orville Wright bought a small printing press and started a weekly newspaper in Dayton, Ohio. Then, they opened a bicycle shop. But they wanted to do something else: they wanted to build a flying machine. And that’s what they did. To get...
