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.
In this image we see an original draft, in President Kennedy's handwriting, of the famous phrase in his inaugural address: "Ask not what your country ...
"A New India" was born in August of 1947 split into two along religious lines.
This painting, by Peter Rothermel, depicts Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765.
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry gave a rousing speech. Dig a little deeper into his ''Liberty or Death'' to learn whether all those famous words were...
During the late spring of 1776, Tom Jefferson traveled to Philadelphia as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
Determined that Marie Antoinette would be condemned to death, French-Revolution leaders put her through a trial on October 14, 1793.
October 23 is "World Polio Day." Step back to a time when Boards of Health issue warning signs to guard against contracting polio in the early 20th ce...
Sermons, like this one from clergy like Abraham Keteltas, supported colonial revolutionary ideas by saying that God and Biblical authority backed thei...
President William Jefferson Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar Chavez a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Since the age of 7, Rafe Sadler lives with Thomas Cromwell who provides the lad with an excellent education. Sadler grows-up to be a man of great weal...
Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to students at Moscow State University, urging them to be free of fear and full of hope for the future.
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