Ideas about good and bad behavior in our personal relations, online actions and business practices to moral philosophy examining concepts of right and wrong - all this is in the field of ethics.
Illinois has a law allowing husbands to declare their wives insane and have them committed to an asylum.
Japan decides to take control of East Asia and stop white, colonial control because they want to create an empire.
One of Bass' letters reaches the right people in the North. Henry Northup makes a plan to free Platt (Solomon Northup).
During his long career, Herblock targets politics and public policy using truth to remind public servants that they serve the people.
When his main contact in America defects in Paris, Rudolf Abel is "found out." The FBI tracks him down, to his Brooklyn neighborhood, and arrests him ...
President Johnson's personal diary entries lack a sense of urgency concerning the alleged second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.
With the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, the South continues to legally practice racial inequality as a way of life.
The jurors selected in the William Penn case side with the defendant, surprising the judges.
The jurors stand by their verdict, in favor of William Penn, are willing to starve for it.
Czolgosz shoots McKinley two times, gravely wounding him, but McKinley's main concern is about his wife.
When word about Pasteur's vaccine spreads, a teenaged hero who saved the lives of six young shepherds needs the vaccine. He arrives from Arbois, Paste...
A former slave named Sarah Gudger tells of the things she experienced in her 121 years of life.