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US Marine Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
“Operation Mississippi Freedom”: When State-Sponsored Terrorism Was American
An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps corporal fires his weapon at a wounded, unarmed Iraqi lying on the floor of a gutted mosque in Fallujah, Nov. 13, 2004. by Kevin Sites found on NPR.org
Shooting the Wounded: What Are the Rules Now?
Protesters against the an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 election ballot.
The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constitution
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957.
The Unfinished Business of School Desegregation
The Algerian flag.
Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria
Photo of A. Mitchell Palmer, a congressman from Pennsylvania who later became the U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson.
Cracking Down on Dissent
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. exiting a plane in 1964.
King in Time; King in time
Wedding rings.
Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa
President JFK giving an address on civil rights in June, 1963.
A President Who Was Still Growing
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.
Giving Up on the Dream?
A homeless man outside the outside the United Nations building in New York with the American flag in the background.
A New Abolition Movement — Against Poverty
Bust of Harlan Fiske Stone, the 12th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following Bad Precedents for Deciding Military Justice
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.
Asking Martin Luther King…
Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David in 1978.
Meddlers Hamstring Iraq Policy
Vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1989 massacre
New Protests in China Won’t Be the Last
American flag fluttering in the breeze.
War Without End Brings Endless Dangers
King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, April 27, 1967.
Which Martin Luther King to Honor?
Lindh photographed after being transported to Camp Rhino.
Walker’s Misguided — But No Traitor
From left to right, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001.
Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf
Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the early 1930s.
The Four Freedoms in the War Against Terrorism
Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks.
Security May Be Too Expensive
Seal of the University of California.
How Does a Nation Protect Itself in Wartime?
Pearl Harbor Attack
War Can Threaten Civil Liberties at Home
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
Not Only Action but Accountability