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.
Killer animals are on trial because people believe Satan acts through those animals.
Disregarding death threats due to his race, Brashear graduates from diving school.
Blacks are in favor of forced busing to get educational equality, but whites protest.
Illinois has a law allowing husbands to declare their wives insane and have them committed to an asylum.
After the death of Henri IV, Cardinal Richelieu advises the new young King Louis XIII, and life for the Huguenots gets worse.
This group of English citizens break the law by moving and forming their own church in Holland.
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.
President Kennedy's response to the Soviet Union, to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, has two versions. One is public, the other is private.
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.
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