In 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson bet $50 he could drive across America. With a mechanic, a bulldog, and a car named Vermont, he made history.

When Jane Cunningham Croly and her peers were denied entry to a Dickens dinner in 1868, they created their own club. Sorosis became the first women-only club in America, and a catalyst for women’s rights, civic activism, and the power of sisterhood.

In 1957, nine African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, bravely desegregated Little Rock Central High School. Defying mobs, a defiant governor, and even the Arkansas National Guard, they made history under the protection of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower.