Old Bailey， the main courthouse in London， had never presented a show quite like the three trials that captivated England and much of the literary wor...
By modern standards， the North-West Rebellion seems no big deal. Canadian forces easily quelled the uprising of a couple of hundred Metis settlers alo...
The Old West's most famous gunbattle lasted all of about thirty seconds， but it left three men dead， three other men shot， and enough questions to...
In May， 1868， the Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented step of removing a president from office. Although the impeachment tria...
The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the mos...
Never has an American trial produced such an impressive set of key players：the defendant—— Aaron Burr， founding father， Vice President， an...
No country values free expression more highly than does the United States， and no case in American history stands as a greater landmark on the road to...
From June through September of 1692， nineteen men and women， all having been convicted of witchcraft， were carted to Gallows Hill， a barren slope near...
There is much to learn from the story of how the head of one of the most revered men in England， Sir Thomas More， ended up on the chopping block on Lo...
The early 1920s found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists， the older Victorians， worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists...