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.
How much power should America's branches of government have?
The war for independence was finally over, but a cash-strapped Congress had, for years, failed to pay the Continental Armys officers and soldiers. How...
James Madison, America's 4th President, was also the drafter of the U.S. Constitution and the country's Bill of Rights.
Elected in 1840, William Henry Harrison is sworn-in as America's 9th President in March of 1841. He dies in office the next month.
William Seward survived the attack by Lewis Powell (Payne), but it left him permanently disfigured.
William Barret Travis, leader of regular-army rebels defending the Alamo, sent a letter pleading for help.
Used to getting his way, Boss Tweed frequently bent the law in his own favor.
Although he was executed, Tyndale's legacy remains. Approximately 85% of the King James Version of the Bible follows Tyndale's translation.
Image of a portrait engraving of William Wirt, circa 1807. He described the speaking voice of Thomas Jefferson.
This facsimile image of President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address contains the famous phrase: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with ...
After Francis Gary Powers was convicted as a spy, in Moscow, Wolfgang Vogel negotiated the exchange of Rudolf Abel for Powers. His negotiating partner...
When James Donovan negotiated for the exchange of Rudolf Abel and Francis Gary Powers, he worked with an East German lawyer named Wolfgang Vogel.
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