After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the abolition of slavery takes on a new urgency for formerly enslaved people. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison no longer see eye to eye, and they have a falling out. "Douglass has had that experience. Garrison is a white man in a white man's America."
Today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history, poet Walt Whitman was denounced by critics in his own time.
An African American civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells was born into slavery before becoming a journalist in Memphis.
Before he became the first U.S. president, service to the colonies would profoundly change George Washington.
The stories of ordinary people in the tumultuous years after the Civil War, when America struggled to rebuild the Union.
Author, soldier, scientist, outdoorsman and caring father, he was the youngest man to become president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
The black residents of Tulsa relive their community's remarkable rise and tragic decline.
An African American minister whose dream of ending racism galvanized millions of Americans in the civil rights movement.
Joseph Goebbels, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's success.