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 its 10 October 1846 issue, the London Pictorial Times publishes an article about an ongoing famine in Ireland.
Whenever a nation goes to war - whether the conflict is supported, or opposed, by most citizens - free speech is threatened.
At the really old Michelham Priory, which people say is haunted by ghosts, we also find an old pillory.
During the 1930s, photographers like Dorothea Lange documented the desperate conditions of migrant farm workers in America, including their efforts to...
With very little food and no money to buy provisions starving Irish families looked to the government for help.
President William Jefferson Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar Chavez a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
By 1886, according to contemporary articles, William Ewart Gladstone (then Great Britains Prime Minister) believed Ireland needed to be independent.
Filipino and American prisoners of war, captured by Japan's Imperial forces, endured incredibly difficult conditions during the Bataan Death March.
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...
Learn the story of Purim - celebrated from sunset-to-sunset on March 23-24, 2016 - which dates back to an ancient event when Jews were saved from cert...
P.W. Botha (1916 - 2006) lived to be ninety years old.
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...
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