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.
Tone is taken prisoner with his French colleagues and is charged as a traitor to Britain.
Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American, ignores internment orders and his arrest and internment go to the Supreme Court, where is he found guilty.
John Quincy Adams wins the Amistad case for the captives, but there is no money to pay for the Africans' passage back to their homes.
The American colonies fight for their own freedom, but still own slaves.
Books represent new or controversial ideas and allow people to preserve and share their thoughts.
The Supreme Court finds Abrams guilty of sedition; however, the First Amendment today allows people to express their opinions (even when they're unpop...
Upset when France gives up so quickly,Charles de Gaulleforms a resistance movement known as "Free French."
There was no system in place to help slaves transition from slavery to freedom either in the North or the South.
Slaves of Southern owners are subject to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Giuseppi Garibaldi, a native of the Piedmont region of Italy, was instrumental in bringing the southern Italian states into the unification process.
Within two months of the Treaty of Paris, Washington resigns as Commander-in-Chief of America's military.
In 1971, T. C. Williams High School's star player, Gerry Bertier, has a car wreck that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down.
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