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.
William Tyndale is largely responsible for the King James Version of the Bible, but his work is also burned.
As Ukrainians starve, the Soviet government covers-up the disaster occurring in Ukraine by selling more and more grain to other countries.
The Bolsheviks change their sharing policies to taking policies not long after consolidating their power.
As he transforms the USSR into an industrial powerhouse, Stalin will pay for his plans with Ukrainian grain.
Stalin's orders to take Ukrainian grain, between 1932-33, cause people throughout Ukraine to starve.
When the lawmakers are the lawbreakers, and a crime is not legally a crime, how can we trust the law?
An important question to ask: When lawmakers say a crime is not a crime, is the action still ethically a crime?
100 years ago, a mother influenced her son to vote "yes" for female suffrage. August 18, 1920 was the day when Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment.
This chapter describes the climate of the country under dictatorship.
The deaths of one black and two white freedom fighters goaded Congress into passing the first voting rights legislation since Reconstruction.
U.S. war posters highlight worries about food shortages and prompt people to avoid wasting anything.
Jefferson believes the colonies should become free states.
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