The history of the Civil Rights Movement is the story of numerous grassroots campaigns loosely coordinated and assisted by a small number of national organizations. Every local...

From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...

World War II had a profound impact on the United States. Although no battles occurred on the American mainland, the war affected all phases of American life. It required...

Stephen Douglas was the first in a long line of observers...