Cesar Chavez's non-violent United Farm Workers and the militant Black Panthers aligned politically throughout the 60s and 70s.

Nine hundred and fifty years ago, Normans sailed across the English Channel, landing on England on September 27, 1066. The Norman Conquest had begun.

 Bob Dylan was been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

What happens when a big stream of refugees enters an American community, bringing their foreign customs and values and taking scarce jobs?

Henry Ford's newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, published years of anti-Semitic articles, prompting Hitler to call him the "single great man."

The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously pounded his shoe at a United Nations meeting in 1960. Anecdotes of erratic behavior like this are unsettling.

In the early twentieth-century, some aristocratic college men were eager to prove their masculinity by working as strikebreakers.

Alexis Soyer frequently cooked for royalty and dignitaries, but also displayed a healthy social conscience.

An eighteenth-century precedent for today's community gardens in Sheffield, England.

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