Voting-rights activist Alice Paul was imprisoned in 1917, along with her womenÕs suffrage cohorts. There she embarked on an uncompromising hunger strike that helped to bring their cause to a turning point.
It’s the middle of the night in August 1858 before the second debate for the U.S. Senate seat. Stephen Douglas and his challenger, Abraham Lincoln, are up discussing their political strategies and policies with their advisers.
It is Saturday, March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Like so many other families, the Williamses and Gorskis of Paterson, NJ, are facing unemployment, eviction, bread lines, and other hard times.
George Washington, first president of the United States, was respected by opposing sides of the young country’s political debates, even when those debates became heated. Washington was known as down-to-earth, fair, and honest.
Muckraking photojournalist Jacob Riis brings his camera into the slums of New York City’s Lower East Side in the late 1880s and hardened young immigrants help him in his quest to turn an urban eyesore into a welcome patch of green.