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.
Entitled "The Foundation of American Government," Hintemeister's art work is his interpretation of a key event in American history.
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
Originally owned by Franklin & Armfield, dealers in slaves, this slave pen was located not far from the U.S. Capitol.
After Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man, and Dr.
When Galileo began to experiment with his new telescope, by pointing it to the sky, he made the world's first astronomical observations.
Gandhi referred to South Africa as his second home, and it was there that the young lawyer decided to non-violently oppose a racially motivated law.
Protesting what he considered an unfair constitutional separation of India's castes, Gandhi begins a to-the-death hunger strike on September 16, 1932.
Worried that people would begin to doubt that Nazi atrocities had ever occurred, General Eisenhower ordered film makers and photographers to document ...
Thomas Jefferson called George Mason (17251792), one of our truly great men.
Nine days after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush addresses a joint session of the 107th Congress. He pledges to defend America's fre...
After the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam was taken over by North Vietnam. This angered many Americans who seriously questioned why their country had go...
On May 22, 1939, Italy and Germany sign an alliance which is known as the "Pact of Steel."
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