At Wonderopolis®, we celebrate the people and events essential to the freedoms we enjoy today. We’ve organized these Wonders of the Day® to make this page easier to navigate. Have fun exploring and learning with these Wonders and the included activities.
Rights
- Wonder of the Day #241: What Does It Mean To Stand For Something?
- Wonder of the Day #401: What Is Suffrage?
- Wonder of the Day #407: What Does It Mean To Be a Native American?
- Wonder of the Day #470: What Is a Civil Right?
- Wonder of the Day #1005: What Is a Democracy?
- Wonder of the Day #1377: What Was the Sit-In Movement?
- Wonder of the Day #2003: What Was the Trail of Tears?
- Wonder of the Day #2409:What Is Segregation?
- Wonder of the Day #2530: What Was the French Revolution?
- Wonder of the Day #2658: What Caused the Hong Kong Protests?
- Wonder of the Day #2672:What Does It Mean to Be an Ally?
- Wonder of the Day #2800: What Happened at the Stonewall Inn?
- Wonder of the Day #2820: Do Kids Have Rights?
- Wonder of the Day #2858: What Caused the Haitian Revolution?
- Wonder of the Day #2887: What Is May Day?
- Wonder of the Day #2894: What Was the Mexican Revolution?
- Wonder of the Day #2921: Why Do We Celebrate Women’s History?
- Wonder of the Day #2956: What Is Pride Month?
Helping Hands
- Wonder of the Day #194: Why Do You Have to Pay Taxes?
- Wonder of the Day #343: Do All Heroes Have Superpowers?
- Wonder of the Day #1708: What Is a Public Service Announcement?
- Wonder of the Day #2039: Do You Have a Social Security Number?
- Wonder of the Day #2727: What Do Social Workers Do?
Freedom Fighters
- Wonder of the Day #536: Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?
- Wonder of the Day #1240: Who Was Jackie Robinson?
- Wonder of the Day #1756: Who Was Malcolm X?
- Wonder of the Day #1957: Who Was Frederick Douglass?
- Wonder of the Day #2351: What Is the Mandela Effect?
- Wonder of the Day #2371: Who Was Gandhi?
- Wonder of the Day #2380: Who Is Ruby Bridges?
- Wonder of the Day #2432: Who Were the Freedom Riders?
- Wonder of the Day #2527: Can You Put a Secret Message In a Song?
- Wonder of the Day #2568: Who Was Sojourner Truth?
- Wonder of the Day #2636: Who Was Muhammad Ali?
- Wonder of the Day #2647: Who Was John Lewis?
- Wonder of the Day #2657: Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
- Wonder of the Day #2732: Who Was Maya Angelou?
- Wonder of the Day #2822: Who Was Pauli Murray?
- Wonder of the Day #2825: Who Was James Baldwin?
- Wonder of the Day #2828: Who Are the Water Protectors?
- Wonder of the Day #2857: Who Was Thurgood Marshall?
- Wonder of the Day #2859: Who Is Claudette Colvin?
- Wonder of the Day #2874: Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?
- Wonder of the Day #2904: Who Was Viola Desmond?
- Wonder of the Day #2912: Who Was Dorothy Pitman Hughes?
- Wonder of the Day #2917: Who Was Odetta?
- Wonder of the Day #2918: Who Was Paul Laurence Dunbar?
- Wonder of the Day #2919: What Is the NAACP?
- Wonder of the Day #2920: Who Was W. E. B. DuBois?
- Wonder of the Day #2924: Who Was Lena Horne?
- Wonder of the Day #2926: Who Was the Queen of Soul?
- Wonder of the Day #2927: Who Is Eddie Bernice Johnson?
- Wonder of the Day #2930: Who Was Nellie Bly?
Awareness
- Wonder of the Day #1674: What Is Foster Care?
- Wonder of the Day #1703: When Was the Harlem Renaissance?
- Wonder of the Day #1777: How Can You Lend a Helping Hand?
- Wonder of the Day #1883: What Are Refugees?
- Wonder of the Day #2004: What Is Digital Citizenship?
- Wonder of the Day #2267: What Is a Food Desert?
- Wonder of the Day #2379: What Is Fair Trade?
- Wonder of the Day #2464: What Is Bias?
- Wonder of the Day #2911: What Is Black History Month?
- Wonder of the Day #2916: What Are HBCUs?
- Wonder of the Day #2921: Why Do We Celebrate Women’s History?
- Wonder of the Day #2925: How Do You Show Resilience?
This list is not inclusive of all of the important events and contributions to democracy. So, if you are WONDERing about a topic we haven’t covered, submit a question to the Wonder Bank for a chance to inspire an all-new Wonder of the Day.
Stay curious,
Team Wonderopolis