Read the speech Susan B. Anthony delivered after being arrested for voting in a presidential election before women had gained the right to vote.
Read the speech Susan B. Anthony delivered after being arrested for voting in a presidential election before women had gained the right to vote.
Read about the meeting of student activists from committed to ending gun violence from Parkland and Chicago.
A New York Times article addresses the role that social media played in rapidly bringing the events in Ferguson to national attention.
The Black president of Bolton, MS's Republican Club writes Governor Ames asking for protection.
Learn about the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and consider the racist themes that were on display.
Northerner Caroline Bartlett White celebrates the Union’s victory and the end of the Civil War.
Ruth Simmons was born into an East Texas family of sharecroppers in the 1940s. In her 2005 commencement speech at the University of Vermont, excerpted here, she describes experiences that helped her escape the poverty and discrimination of her youth to become the president of Brown University.
Learn about the memo that urged President Roosevelt to step up US efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis, and led him to establish the War Refugee Board.
James Lusk, a white man from Alabama, abandoned the Republican Party in 1874. He gave this explanation to a former political associate, noting that "no white man can live in the South in the future and act with any other than the Democratic party unless he is willing and prepared to live a life of social isolation and remain in political oblivion...the die is cast."