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.
During July of 1917, demonstrators in Petrograd (including sailors from Kronstadt) were met with fierce opposition by soldiers of the provisional gove...
Jean Valjean was imprisoned nineteen years - at hard labor - for breaking into a bakery, stealing a loaf of bread, then trying to escape from his life...
Irish children, detained in the country's Industrial Schools, were forced to work as well as study during their years of detention in such places. One...
Born Hugh Smithson, Lord Percy was the 2nd Duke of Northumberland and a Member of Parliament. His half-brother willed funds to America which the gover...
Ten days before Parliament was scheduled to open in November of 1605, William Parker (also known as Lord Monteagle) was about to have dinner at his ho...
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (18561941) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was known as a strong supporter of civil rights.
The story of a gangster so dominant that he made TIME magazine's top-100 list of the 20th century's most influential people.
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
The Lusitania was a British ocean-going vessel able to achieve great speeds during her transatlantic crossings.
Ever since Lusitania sank following a U-Boat strike, people have debated whether the great ship was carrying war materiel during her last voyage.
Spared the death penalty for a treason conviction, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment during June of 1964.
During its heyday, and at the height of its production, the Manhattan Project - America's code-named effort to build a nuclear bomb - employed around ...
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