Slavery

Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856.He taught himself to read and write,...

Download as PDF ... In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the third Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist Pastor, Reverend...

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, delivered an address at Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1900. The description was recorded in The Booker T. Washington...

By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens. In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9: "States are as the...

"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika. Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...

Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Norma McCorvey, who...

Democratic Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York has put forward a $14 trillion reparations plan, aiming to address the historical impact of slavery on...

By the time of the Civil War, the United States was a nation deeply divided over the issue of slavery.

The United States is known for its vibrant democracy and the role political parties play in shaping the nation's policies and governance.