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.
During July of 1917, demonstrators in Petrograd (including sailors from Kronstadt) were met with fierce opposition by soldiers of the provisional gove...
What is life like in Iran .
Fighting for a woman's rights to vote, Alice Paul ignores the possibility of falling in love.
WARNING - THIS CLIP DEPICTS GRAPHIC SCENES OF MISTREATMENT IN A PRISON SETTING.
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
Foreigners from Manchuria were allowed into China during the seventeenth century.
How did the U.S. Supreme Court get the power of "judicial review?
Charles Moore - authorized biographer of Margaret Thatcher - discusses the coal strikes of 1984 in this video clip.
Britain's Prime Minister is required to respond to questions put by Members of Parliament.
In this clip from "Margaret Thatcher - The Fall," Britain's former Prime Minister describes what it was like to go through the final cabinet meeting, ...
This clip, from a BBC documentary on Margaret Thatcher, highlights her final days as Prime Minister and explains how she lost power when members of he...
Looking back, to make sure her husband Denis is there, Margaret Thatcher addresses the gathered crowd, then leaves Number 10 Downing Street (the Londo...
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