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.
The invasion of Tibet by China.
After the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Chai Ling was forced into hiding and later was able to leave the country to continue living outside of China in e...
James' son Charles I is condemned to death and beheaded for treason.
Even though the American Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech, Americans practice censorship.
Young children work with little hope of getting a formal education.
American Lewis Hines photographs children in all sorts of manual labor jobs.
Chuck wagons and barbed wire are like the bookends of America's cattle-drive era. The wagon was at the beginning while barbed wire was at the end.
If you get in trouble with the king, go there, you will be safe. The goddess releases the wrath.
The Free State Army and the Irish Republican Army continue to fight.
SC Standards 8-4.2: Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey Plot, slave codes, and the growth of the abolitio...
Two superpowers - the US and the USSR - send back-and-forth letters, each demanding that the other remove missiles from nearby countries.
King George III is unwilling to compromise with the colonies in order to avoid a long and costly war. The colonists are willing to rebel to overthrow ...
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