Harriet Tubman. Lindsley, Harvey B., 1842-1921, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Harriet Tubman Biography and Legacy Harriet Tubman stands among the most extraordinary figures in world history, not because she sought greatness, but...
Pablo Neruda. Annemarie Heinrich (1912-2005), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Pablo Neruda Biography and Legacy Pablo Neruda remains one of the most powerful and contradictory voices in world literature. To read Neruda is to...
Jawaharlal Nehru. Keystone View Company/FPG, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jawaharlal Nehru Biography and Legacy Jawaharlal Nehru remains one of the most complex and influential figures in modern Indian history. To some, he is...
Jeremy Bentham. Henry William Pickersgill, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jeremy Bentham is one of those thinkers who never quite leaves the room once you encounter him. His ideas linger, sometimes uncomfortably, whenever we...
Julius Caesar. Musei Vaticani (Stato Città del Vaticano), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Julius Caesar Biography and Legacy Few names in world history carry as much weight as Julius Caesar. A brilliant general, skilled...
Joan Miró. Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Joan Miró Biography and Legacy Few artists in the twentieth century captured the dreamlike wonder and playful abstraction of the human imagination like Joan...
Cleanthes. Theodoor Galle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Cleanthes of Assos (c. 330 BC – c. 230 BC) stands as one of the central figures in early Stoic philosophy. A devoted student of Zeno...
Benjamin Franklin. David Martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Benjamin Franklin Biography and Legacy Benjamin Franklin is one of the most remarkable figures in American history. Known as a Founding Father, inventor, writer, philosopher,...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Biography and Legacy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) is widely considered one of the greatest literary figures in...
Dante Alighieri. Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Dante Alighieri Biography and Legacy Dante Alighieri was a Florentine poet, thinker, and philosopher whose masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, reshaped world literature. By writing in...