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.
The law of the steppes allowed people to take what they wished - but that insured fighting between tribes.
After serving as America's only unanimously elected President, George Washington returned to his beloved home - Mount Vernon - where he died on the 14...
When Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on the 9th of August, 1974, America's Vice-President was sworn in as the country's 38th chief executive.
This British Newsreel - for the week of May 15, 1940 - tries to put an optimistic spin on events of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and its effo...
The Gestapo derives its name from Geheime Staatspolizei - the secret state police of Nazi Germany.
Following a period of racial tension and riots during 1967, the city of Cleveland erupted in riots between July 23-28, 1968.
After China was united, the First Emperor sent 300,000 soldiers to the northern frontier to drive back invading nomads.
Why did the First Emperor of China, and later rulers (especially the Ming Dynasty), build a great wall?
This clip is also from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stal...
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP IS FROM A DOCUMENTARY ON THE GULAG AND SOVIET-ERA FORCED LABOR CAMPS.
Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."
The Han dynasty built a great wall which has resisted two thousand years of erosion in the barren desert.
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