Nixon decided to use force to end the Vietnam War with "the Christmas Bombing."
Truman interpreted a North Korean attack as direct aggression from the Soviet Union.
Truman's first impression of Joseph Stalin was favorable.
Major League Baseball tried to ignore the "un-American" heritage of Latino ballplayers.
Roberto Clemente is introduced to overt racism while training in the American South.
The day after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, William Lloyd Garrison was met by 10,000 freed slaves outside the Charleston Citadel.
In 1862, Lincoln promises to sign an Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's Day.
John Brown put little stock in abolition through peaceful means. In 1855, he headed to the slave state of Kansas.
With the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the war merged with the abolitionist cause. But the Union had to win, or the Proclamation would mean nothing.
By killing of five pro-slavery men, John Brown hoped to strike terror in the hearts of pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.
Harriet Beecher Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery through the eyes of its victims.
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal.
