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.
Ordered to travel to London, to stand trial for treason, Cardinal Wolsey stops at Leicester Abbey in November of 1530. He dies there, soon after his a...
The first state to grant female suffrage did so in 1869 and the NAWSA worked every year thereafter to make this right a national one.
Woodrow Wilson, about to be inaugurated as U.S. President, learns that American women are marching in protest against his stance on female voting righ...
During WWII, the federal government urged American women to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and become what was known as a WAAC.
Anti-suffrage groups published political cartoons to warn what could happen if women were given the right to vote.
Image of a portrait photograph of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
The Center of Military History, for the United States Army, features a story about Hamilton's military background.
In this image, depicting a painting by W.F. Yeames entitled “The Dawn of the Reformation,” we see John Wycliffe giving copies of his newly...
Zachary Taylor, a war hero during the US/Mexican war, became America's 12th President.
A disaster occurs, for captured Africans, when a water shortage aboard a slave ship results in the deliberate killing of people (whom the crew and shi...
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.
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