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.
When the Irish potato famine caused people to lose their homes, some individuals - like Judy O'Donnel - found "habitation" under a bridge.
After members of his crew report that Captain Kimber has murdered a slave girl, he is found "not guilty" by an all-male jury.
Kapu are sacred rules that the Hawaiian's thought of as a religion.
When she was just a child, Katharina von Bora was sent to live in a convent (at Brehna, north of Leipzig) after her mother died. She later became the ...
John Lackland, the English King who agrees to the Magna Carta, acknowledges that Kings and Queens are subject to the rule of law just like everyone el...
Kobie Coetsee, in charge of South Africa's prisons in the mid-80s, began a dialogue with Mandela which eventually freed the prisoner from his life sen...
Illustrating and amplifying the concept of self-rule from "Land of Hope," by Wilfred M. McClay.
Thomas Clarkson describes the public's reaction to the drawings he and his colleagues commissioned of the Slave ShipBrooks
During the Nazi era, in Germany, Hitler and his supporters were obsessed with racial identity. The "Lebensborn" program was part of the Third Reich's...
During July of 1917, demonstrators in Petrograd (including sailors from Kronstadt) were met with fierce opposition by soldiers of the provisional gove...
Jean Valjean is the central character of Victor Hugo's ever-popular Les Miserables, but we don't really "meet him" until "Book Second" of Volume I.
Irish children, detained in the country's Industrial Schools, were forced to work as well as study during their years of detention in such places. One...
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