Ideas about good and bad behavior in our personal relations, online actions and business practices to moral philosophy examining concepts of right and wrong - all this is in the field of ethics.
In the late 1800s in Cuba, Father Benito Vines trains people to predict hurricanes. U.S. forecasters are reluctant to use his data.
"Freedom Summer" results in terrible violence yet the civil-rights workers keep at their task of registering black voters.
Robert E. Sticker created an oil painting interpreting the “Nantucket Sleigh Ride,” an adrenalin-producing event which occurred after whal...
Top-secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam leads to many federal-government lies being exposed.
King John continues to fight with the nobles until his death. Eight hundred years later the Magna Carta is still an important document.
The Magna Carta grants certain liberties to noblemen and, years later, becomes a basis for American rights and liberties.
Family members are put in different camps where they work on large projects, such as the White Sea Canal.
Jim Crow Laws, named after a character in a minstrel show, become a synonym for legal segregation.
Facts about Bobby's fatal shooting are still in dispute today.
In 1920, the 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony died before that happened.
This lithograph, by John Childs, depicts “Cinque Addressing his Compatriots.” It is online via the U.S. National Archives, courtesy of the...
Mossadeq upsets Britain by taking back control of Iran's oil; the U.S. agrees to partner with Britain to overthrow him.
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