Are people born free? Do governments give rights to citizens or do citizens give-up some rights in exchange for good government? These are stories about people seeking and achieving their civil rights.
In Illinois, married women have few rights; a husband can commit his wife to a mental institution against her will.
Though the President issues the proclamation, it is not a law and slaveholders in the South, who have left the Union, can (and do) ignore it.
Two white men torture and murder young Emmett Till.
Sixty years on, remember Emmett Till whose visit with relatives in Mississippi led to grossly unfair treatment under Jim Crow laws. His Mother's react...
When the Soviets liberated Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg thought they could also free 70,000 Jewish people who were still at risk. After discussing the i...
Whenever Ireland tries to regain their independence, England defeats them.
English colonists in America are tired of the taxes and jurisdictions that the British impose, and make their intentions known.
This image depicts the town of Lillehammer, Norway (as it appeared in 2005). Erling Storrusten was living in this town when he was part of Milorg, Nor...
The "Underground Railroad", a network of routes, safe houses, and people, helps many slaves escape.
Catholic Mary seeks help from Protestant Queen Elizabeth, who instead keeps her under house arrest for nineteen years.
Norways gets LOTS of snow! This picture, taken by SSGT Rodney K. Prouty on the 5th of March in 1982, depicts LEOPARD I battle tanks being used in a NA...
The United States joins WWI, starts a military draft which many oppose, and passes the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918.
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