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.
A disaster unfolded at Attica State Prison when officials and inmates clashed during 1971.
Iran and America had friendly diplomatic relations until 1953, when the U.
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
After Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and their colleagues are released, they renew their efforts to get a constitutional amendment, granting women the right t...
Although he was executed, Tyndale's legacy remains. Approximately 85% of the King James Version of the Bible follows Tyndale's translation.
What did two rambunctious little boys, who lived in the White House, do for fun while their father was America's president?
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.
Star of the 1942 film Die groe Liebe ("The Great Love"), in which she sings "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" ('That is not the end of the world'), Za...
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.
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