Topics: what history's greatest minds said
The same question, answered by different figures. Pick a topic to read what Washington, Lincoln, King, Franklin, Jesus and others wrote about it, with the passages quoted and linked.
- Money
Banks, paper currency, wealth, taxes and thrift. These answers collect what history's figures wrote about money and how a society should handle it.
12 answers
- Civil Rights
Equality before the law, voting, and the long argument over who counts as a full citizen, answered from the speeches and writings of those who made it.
7 answers
- Technology
Social media, artificial intelligence and other modern tools that no historical figure ever saw. Each answer reasons from what the figure actually wrote about similar questions and says so.
7 answers
- Media and the Press
Newspapers, pamphlets, propaganda and the freedom of the press, from the people who relied on them and were attacked by them.
6 answers
- Religion
Faith, prayer, scripture and the place of religion in public life, quoted from the figures' own writings and the texts themselves.
6 answers
- Slavery
Slavery and abolition in the words of those who owned slaves, fought the institution, or tried to govern a country divided by it.
6 answers
- Character
Virtue, discipline and how to live well, drawn from the rules, journals and meditations the figures left behind.
4 answers
- Poverty
The poor, charity and economic justice, from sermons, speeches and letters written by people who saw hardship up close.
4 answers
- The Civil War
The war that nearly broke the Union, as argued by the people who prosecuted it, opposed it and lived through it.
4 answers
- Violence
Riots, rebellion, war and nonviolence. What history's figures said about when force is justified and when it is not.
4 answers
- Labor and Work
Workers, wages and the relationship between labor and capital, from the people who argued about both.
3 answers
- Polarization
Faction, party spirit and national division. Several founders warned about it in writing, and these answers apply what they wrote to today.
3 answers
- Protest
Dissent, marches and civil disobedience, answered from the writings of those who led or faced protest movements.
3 answers