However loud his critics shouted their disapproval, Abraham Lincoln would neither deprive them of free speech nor change his opinions.

A ‘slight and delicate’ Canadian woman defied twenty miles of rugged terrain in sweltering heat to warn of an impending attack by American invaders.

Twenty teams of dogs ran a life-or-death race against time over Alaska’s frozen trails to bring medicines to desperately sick children.

The tighter the US Government’s stranglehold on dissent grew, the harder Daniel Webster fought for freedom of speech.

In replying to a letter of support from Manchester’s cotton workers, US President Lincoln showed how deeply touched he had been.

Two years into America’s Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester defied current opinion among politicians and the press, and pledged their support to the Union.