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 Bolsheviks came to power, during the Russian Revolution, they were led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Imagining what it would be like to have alter-ego boys, both aged 9, living on opposite sides of the Auschwitz fence, John Boyne creates a sobering st...
On the 21st of August, 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia.
After a six-month period of relative quiet, which some journalists called a "phony war," Hitler sent his troops to invade, then occupy, Norway in Apri...
In 1968, the idea of Glasnost (openness and transparency within government institutions) and Perestroika (restructuring of Soviet economic and politic...
When Joseph Stalin came to power, after the death of Vladimir Lenin, he decided to force a monumental change in the way people in the Soviet Union rai...
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
A famous cartoon, by an unknown artist, depicts how Colonial Americans viewed their mother country (and their future without her).
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo (1877-1947) was a Democratic Mississippi politician who served as state governor and U.
While Theseus was sailing to Crete, as a Tribute for King Minos and the Minotaur, the monster had a dream.
Theseus and The Minotaur is a Greek myth about the son of an Athenian king - Theseus - and a horrifying monster - "The Minotaur.
Theseus learned that his father was Aegeus, King of Athens, after he was able to move a heavy rock and discover what was beneath it.
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