At age 21, Samuel Slater defied English law by bringing his knowledge of this to America.

A full-size statue of this U.S. President stands in front of the University Of Cincinnati College Of Law.

This influential 19th-century woman married her best friend’s husband after the friend’s death and named her first children after herself and that friend.

Due to his deafness, this man and both his first and second wife communicated by tapping out Morse code in each other’s hands.

This naval hero is noted for sending the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

John Roebling designed this structure but died of tetanus before he could oversee the work, which was then directed by his son, Washington Roebling.

The feared Confederate commerce raider CSS Florida was captured in Brazil’s Bahia harbor by this ship.