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.
Consider quotes from South Africans about the nature of democracy and what makes it work.
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.
Consider the unique experiences of black South African women during apartheid, many of whom were forced to live far away from their husbands on bantustans.
Explore the responses by leaders of the African National Congress to the new Union of South Africa government’s racially motivated Native Lands Act of 1913.
Examine the tension between two white European groups in South Africa, the Afrikaners (formerly Boers) and the English, in Afrikaner politician Francis Reitz’s A Century of Wrong.
Learn about how Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835), viewed democracy, freedom, and religion.
Learn about the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with this historical overview.
Learn about the challenges and successes one woman encountered in her efforts to make a difference.
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Examine some of the political choices and decisions made by leaders in Weimar Germany that shaped the history of the Republic.