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.
Since it became America's capital city, circa 1800, Washington City had slaves. This compendium includes laws impacting slavery in the District.
This letter, dated the 4th of April 1864, reflects President Lincoln's personal view of slavery.
The Spice Islands - an archipelago also known as the Moluccas (and the Maluku Islands) - are part of Indonesia. Volcanic-originating, these isla...
Parliament requires all newspapers with mastheads to be printed on specially embossed paper, but what if the news gets printed on paper without a mast...
What is the subject of this novel? It is something which Dostoevsky understood firsthand since the story portrays life in a Siberian penal colony (not...
The Mayflower Compact—Cornerstones of Freedom, by Melissa Whitcraft, is about the Pilgrims' voyage to America and the colony they established (a...
Edgar Allan Poe published his short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," in the January 1843 issue of "The Pioneer."
A slave owner himself, Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment against it in his early draft of America’s Declaration of Independence. ...
This image depicts the second page of a letter which Thomas Jefferson sent to Miles King on the 26th of September, 1814. In it he discusses his ...
Thomas Jefferson believed that freedom of religion is essential to living an independent life. He espoused his personal philosophy, along those ...
Thomas Jefferson had an opinion on how his country treated Native Americans. On the 13th of August, 1786, he wrote a letter to Benjamin Hawkins ...
This timeline, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, identifies the dates for key events leading up to Hitler's "Final Solution" of the "J...
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