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.
Schenck is charged and found guilty of conspiring to cause disobedience in the military.
Charlotte Doyle's abandonment of her family leads to the children's commitment to Ireland's industrial schools.
The people prosecuting Joan decide her fate before the trial begins. She is not given a lawyer and the person prosecuting her is also the judge in the...
Elizabeth and her husband go to trial; the jury finds her sane.
After his U-2 plane is shot-down over Soviet territory, Francis Gary Powers must stand trial in Moscow as a spy. Before that, he faces numerous interr...
False evidence and a conviction of treason result in a death sentence for Marie Antoinette.
James Donovan represents Rudolf Abel, an accused Soviet spy, at his trial which takes place in Brooklyn during the fall of 1957.
Runaway slaves need to be creative to avoid capture.
Forced to flee France, because he "sold" the Eiffel Tower to unsuspecting Parisian scrap-metal dealers, Victor Lustig returns to Prohibition-Era Ameri...
William Still, a freeborn black man and Father of the Underground Railroad, shares accounts of slaves who take the passage to freedom.
King James lives a dramatic life with literary aspirations and rumors about his relationships with the men in his court.
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