Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
STORY PREFACE
 Photograph of Edgardo Mortara, pictured on the right, together with his
mother and possibly (uncertain) his brother. Image online, courtesy
Wikipedia Commons.
Kidnapping is a crime. Period. Parents take great comfort in that truth.
But suppose a place exists where kidnapping is not a crime under certain circumstances. Try to imagine what life in such a country would be like. Think about the terrible effects of such "legal" actions.
** Quoted by David I. Kertzer in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, at page 3.)
Original Release Date: July, 2001
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Table of Contents
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion