It was a warm spring Saturday in New York City， March 25， 1911. On the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building just off of Washington Square， ...
Only once in its history has the United States Supreme Court conducted a criminal trial. The trial， taking place in both Tennessee and the District of...
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...
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， and slayer of ...
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...
If we needed any confirmation that Supreme Court Establishment Clause jurisprudence was a mess， Chief Justice nominee John G. Roberts gave it to us th...