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.
George Washington inherited property on the Potomac River, called Mount Vernon, learn more about the development of the property.
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin at the Mulberry Grove Plantation. The gin makes growing cotton much easier, on southern plantations, directly leadi...
Learn about the origination of Muscovy and its earliest leader, Daniel Aleksandrovich.
America's first female lawyer, Myra Bradwell (1831-94) is little-known today, despite being very influential in her time.
In occupied Holland, Dutch churches issued a collective protest against the treatment of the country's Jews.
Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russians, was so worried about his son's health that he failed to pay attention to military affairs. Meanwhile, his subje...
In October of 1960, the leader of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations is upset and will not be ignored. To get attention, he ignores protocol ...
On June 23, 1972, an audio recorder taped a damaging talk - called "The Smoking Gun" - between Nixon and Haldeman. This photo depicts the Watergate Co...
Enoch ("Nucky") L. Johnson - called Nucky Thompson in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" - was known as a kind of "Robin Hood" when he was "The Boss" o...
On the1st of October, 1946, eleven high-ranking Nazis wereconvicted of war crimesand were sentenced to hang later that month. Scholars still debate w...
This photograph depicts two Jewish women, in Paris, wearing the yellow Star of David.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.
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