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.
Irish girls who had personal or familial issues in their lives were sometimes removed from their homes and sent to places known as "Magdalene Laundrie...
During the 1930s, photographers like Russell Lee documented the living and working conditions of migrant farm workers in America, including the interi...
This German photograph, depicting Norwegian children “Getting Acquainted with the Invaders,” reportedly appeared in American newspapers fo...
The Irish Poor Laws, intended to help the most-desperate people of the country, actually harmed them when landowners who were responsible for tenant f...
As economic conditions grew desperate for Irish people, during the potato famine, residents of entire villages abandoned their homeland in search for ...
After the potato blight infected the crops of Irish tenant farmers, in the summer of 1845, crop failures led to widespread economic distress in Irelan...
In spite of censorship in her time, Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) remains one of Russia's most-loved poets of the 20th century.
During the first part of his reign, Tsar Ivan IV was not known as "Ivan the Terrible." That moniker came later, after his first wife died and he emplo...
Pee Wee Reese changed the way black baseball players were viewed by fans by befriending Jackie Robinson.
Before baseball, Jackie Robinson was a standout basketball player.
A symbol for the civil rights movement, Jackie Robinson voiced his opinion to the White House.
Jackie Robinson's ability to positively influence the men in his unit so impressed his superior officer that he is designated the "morale officer" of ...
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