What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.
In 1939, Einstein writes a letter to FDR about his theory of creating power from splitting atoms and his concerns that Germany can develop nuclear bom...
Elizabeth Packard participates in an open-study Bible class where the teacher encourages many points of view.
Her father sends Packard to an insane asylum in Massachusetts when she is 23.
In Illinois, married women have few rights; a husband can commit his wife to a mental institution against her will.
Though the President issues the proclamation, it is not a law and slaveholders in the South, who have left the Union, can (and do) ignore it.
English colonists in America are tired of the taxes and jurisdictions that the British impose, and make their intentions known.
Nicholas' coronation feast causes the death of about 2,000 people and his reign causes Russia many military losses.
The "Underground Railroad", a network of routes, safe houses, and people, helps many slaves escape.
The Pilgrims try to worship freely in England before gathering in Amsterdam.
Norways gets LOTS of snow! This picture, taken by SSGT Rodney K. Prouty on the 5th of March in 1982, depicts LEOPARD I battle tanks being used in a NA...
The United States joins WWI, starts a military draft which many oppose, and passes the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918.
8-4.1 Importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina
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