Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a Quaker family in Yorba Linda, California. He studied at Whittier College and at Duke University Law School, where he...
Pierre Trudeau gave this impassioned broadcast during a period that came to be known as the ‘October crisis’ – the effects of which are still felt...
The oldest of four girls, Shirley Chisholm was born in November 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family. Her parents were immigrants from the...
This is the concluding part of the speech first published on Friday, June 6, 2014. This is our hope. This is the faith that I will...
Martin Luther King’s famous speech ‘I have a dream’, was delivered to 250,000 civil rights supporters on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, at...
The 13 per cent derivation being agitated for by the oil producing states is attracting criticisms from some Nigerians, just as many others see it as...
In September 1938, a year before the outbreak of World War II, Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and Fuhrer of the Third Reich in Germany, announced publicly that...
Joseph Stalin’s speech to the Soviet Politburo on 19 August 1939 reveals his deliberations prior to signing a pact with Nazi Germany on 22 August, in...
This extract is from Clarence Darrow’s seven- hour closing defence argument in Henr Sweet’s trial for murder in April 1926. Sweet was a member of a...
This speech was made by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, in 1917 and marked the entry of America into World War I....
