‘Lessons from History’ Archives
I Have a Dream – MLK Jr.
I have a Dream To Hear Audio of Speech Click PLAY: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a [...]
The Radical Republicans
The Republican Party began in 1854 as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This legislation split Whig Party members along regional lines. Former Northern Whigs united with members of the Free Soil Party and the American Party to create the Republican Party. Republican Party members generally opposed slavery, but many of these people also [...]
Henry Ford
Refusing to allow his creations to be mass distributed until they had been perfected, Henry Ford set the precedent of what would become the model of worldwide assembly and distribution. And, having lost his first company to board members who overthrew his power, he went on to create his own company that used innovative methods to sell millions [...]
Rosa Parks
Even after suffering bouts of poor health as a child, Rosa Parks lived a long and fulfilling life. She is one of America’s most iconic symbols of freedom and equal civil rights. Dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement,” her fame grew publicly when she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to move from a bus seat in [...]
