When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luth...
Mollie Steimer was born in Russia on the 21st of November, 1897. Living in New York, she protest America's involvement in WWI and was deported, by the...
Norman Rockwell listened to FDR's annual speech to Congress, in 1941, about "four freedoms" and created four paintings. They became icons of the war y...
On the 6th of January, 1941 - eleven months before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor - President Franklin D.
This photograph depicts two Jewish women, in Paris, wearing the yellow Star of David.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about life as a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp, in Siberia's GULAG, is based onhis own experience.
Whenever a nation goes to war - whether the conflict is supported, or opposed, by most citizens - free speech is threatened.
One hundred years after Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg (on October 31, 1517), a conflict called the Thirty Years W...
Quakers were persecuted in England as well as in Britain's American Colonies. George Fox, who founded the "Society of Friends," was among those persec...
Red Tails, a story about African-Americans who flew for their country during WWII, is a story about racial prejudice and how a group of brave men achi...
Even before Irish-Catholics arrive from Ireland, during the Potato Famine, religious-based riots occur in Philadelphia.
On the 7th of March, 1965, Alabama law-enforcement officials attacked civil-rights marchers as they attempted to cross the bridge in Selma. These are ...
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