Law and Politics Chapters

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.

American war posters portray the need for more and more equipment and advise people to waste nothing.

James Donovan selected the Glienicke Bridge, connecting West Berlin with Potsdam (in East Germany) as the place to exchange Abel for Powers. It become...

Joseph Goebbels is in charge of propaganda for the Third Reich and controls who can make movies and what those films can depict.

The Pilgrims decide to leave Holland due to a lack of religious freedom and good jobs.

South Carolina History Standard 8-5.4 Summarize the policies and actions of South Carolina's political leadership implementing discriminatory laws tha...

Qin Shi Huang-Di buries people alive and performs other harsh measures in battle and while building the Great Wall and his Mausoleum.

With help from his top advisers, who pave the way for a change in Britain, Henry VIII gets his divorce and marriage annulment, from Catherine of Arago...

T. C. Williams High School hires a black head coach, Herman Boone, to lead the school's desegregated football team.

After WWII, Greece fights a civil war - civilians against the army - and then, in 1953, there is a terrible earthquake.

During 1932-33 people in Ukraine die for lack of food. This man-made disaster is called Holodomor and has its roots in Soviet policies.

Hoover leaves the work of capturing bank robbers to local police until Dillinger commits a federal offense across state lines.

Edgardo, kidnapped from his Jewish family, becomes a well-educated, world-famous priest who credits the servant girl for saving him, and his Inquisito...

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