When he took the podium to deliver the "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King wasn't even going to utter that immortal line — then fate interceded.

Albert Cashier was born Jennie Hodgers and would become a top-notch private for the Union Army during the American Civil War.

After France was liberated from German occupation, many within the country borrowed Nazi tactics to publicly shame women.

At the height of the Holocaust, 23 Jews arrived at Julian Bilecki's home seeking shelter. He didn't have the room, so he made it.

After escaping persecution in Europe, these Jewish scholars found hatred in its American form — and a deep bond with historically black colleges and universities.

Did this vintage U.S. propaganda invent the mass choreography of fascism?

Do you have the same favorite dish as Pope Francis, Donald Trump, or Vladimir Putin?

This is the human body as you've never seen it before.

As the situation grew more and more dire in Vietnam, America's Vietnam War protests grew stronger and stronger.

How Holocaust denial first took root and where it's flourishing today.

In 1966, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton created the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary black socialist movement that would take America by storm.