When the Northern groom married the Southern bride, the bond was love. And a fight for freedom.

After centuries of smooth sailing, Columbus ran into the shoals of history. And Indigenous Peoples’ Day was born.

Income equality? Unions? Co-ops? Busting up corporations? The radical left? Nah, just American farmers.

Slavery continued in Texas for months after the war. Then came the word — on Juneteenth.

A half century ago, Hollywood was still fighting World War II. Then came M*A*S*H.

When her husband’s CCC put men to work, Eleanor Roosevelt asked “What about the women?”

The Power Broker knew how to build but Jane Jacobs knew how to make cities livable. Her book revived urban America. You’re welcome.

With soldiers coming home in flag-draped caskets, the Supreme Court considered the Pledge of Allegiance. The ruling may surprise you.

The study said… The study said… Then Carol Gilligan realized. The study had only studied boys. Might girls speak “In a Different Voice”?

Fannie Lou Hamer was the soul of Mississippi’s civil rights movement. Soon all of America would hear her voice.

Loss after loss, Harvey Milk kept battering at the door. If he could only “give them hope.” (As seen in “Milk.”)

Coal miners distrusted Barbara Kopple until she hunkered down with them -- for three years -- and came home with a living, breathing masterpiece.

Single mother of seven, Dolores Huerta left her teaching job and went into the fields.  The United Farm Workers was born.

History’s Mill Girls were models of labor. Until they went on strike and sowed the seeds of the Labor movement.

"They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform.  The world moves."

In these "times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine offers a remedy -- believe in people, not institutions.