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.
Despite his high position, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey falls from Henry VIII's favor when he is unable to convince Pope Clement VII to grant the King a div...
In 1940, France surrenders to Germany and for the next four years Hitler's forcesoccupy two-thirds of France.
Wilberforce introduces a bill in Parliament to outlaw and end the slave trade.
Many American women are champions in the fight for women's rights.
Africans lose the first trial, but abolitionists want them to be set free.
An integrated group of whites and blacks, men and women traveled by bus throughout the south to test compliance with the ruling in Boynton v Virginia
Stretching four thousand miles through the entire country, the Great Wall of China is a man-made wonder of the world.
North Vietnam attacks American naval ships, on 2 August 1964, but they do not react.
November 5 is "Guy Fawkes Day" because, in 1605, a plot to kill the King was thwarted when Fawkes was found with 36 barrels of gunpowder under the Hou...
Despite his nickname as "The Hanging Judge," Isaac C. Parker personally opposed capital punishment. Even so, he gave hundreds of convicted criminals t...
After Union soldiers leave, the South resumes racial discrimination and segregation as a way of life.
James feels he has "divine rights" and authorizes a new English translation of the Bible, then dies leaving the throne to his son.
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