Stories, chapters and images relating to the belief of a peaceful world, the work towards more peaceful living, and models of peaceful actions.
Being U.S. President, during America's Civil War, required Mr. Lincoln to make difficult strategic decisions.
After Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went missing - following their release from questioning at Sheriff Lawrence Raineys jail - hundreds of people look...
Gandhi urged a national strike after he returned to his country. The Amritsar Massacre soon followed.
Gandhi referred to South Africa as his second home, and it was there that the young lawyer decided to non-violently oppose a racially motivated law.
Helen Keller first realized the meaning of words when her teacher (Annie Sullivan) spelled “water” (w-a-t-e-r) in her hand on the 5th of April, 18...
Who was the Buddha, the man who founded a religion followed by around 400 million people? Step back in time to uncover his origins.
Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.
Learn about redrawing national boundaries.
After many long years of war, and the deaths of many people, Richard Nixon announces a Peace Accord to end the Vietnam War
Charles Moore - Margaret Thatcher's authorized biographer - discusses his research on the differences, and similarities, between Mikhail Gorbachev, Ro...
On 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf, the famous British author, drowned in a river near her home. A single recording of her voice survives. The BBC has r...
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