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.
After Union soldiers leave, the South resumes racial discrimination and segregation as a way of life.
The Iron Maiden is another form of intense suffering and slow death.
Of all the painful ways to be tortured, the Judas Cradle has to be one of the most painful ways to die.
Szpilman's last radio concert and the end of cultural life in Warsaw before the war occur at the same time.
This manuscript is an amazing example of book painting that is even older than the Diamond Sutra.
Nine black high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas waged a successful campaing to attend public shool.
William Wallace plans to do everything in his power to ensure England's King Edward I will not rule his Scotland.
William Wallace plans to do everything in his power to ensure England's King Edward I will not rule his Scotland.
Witnesses state the slaves are well-fed, comfortable, and happy during the ocean passage.
The Missouri Compromise allows a part of the former Louisiana Territory - admitted into the Union as a state called Missouri - to be a slave-holding s...
Celia accidently kills her owner, Robert Newsom, while defending herself against rape.
Justice Hunt does not allow the jury to reach a verdict but gives his own written statement at the conclusion of proofs in the Susan B. Anthony trial....
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