Legal History

law-gender

Throughout much of recorded history, women were commonly treated as legal dependents or property within marriage, a concept known as coverture that erased their separate legal i...

law

In short, OJ Simpson was never convicted of murder: on October 3, 1995, a Los Angeles jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the charges of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ro...

law-history

The importance of Hammurabi’s Code lies in its early, systematic attempt to codify laws and align justice with written rules. Created in ancient Mesopotamia by King Hammurabi...

law

For much of legal history, women could only divorce under narrow, gendered circumstances. Permission often required proof of adultery, cruelty, or desertion, while property and...

history

Indentured servants were people who signed a contract, often called an indenture, to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage, food, clothing, and sometimes land o...

political law

Communist trials refer to criminal prosecutions brought against individuals or groups accused of offenses related to communist activity, organization, or advocacy. These trials...

history-government

To ask about repealing the American Revolution is to ask about undoing the foundational political rupture that created the United States and permanently altered the modern world...

law

The O J Simpson trial refers to the 1994–1995 criminal prosecution of former NFL star and actor Orenthal James Simpson for the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her...

history

The Nuremberg Laws were anti-Jewish racial regulations enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935, stripping Jews of citizenship and forbidding mixed marriages to institutionalize discrimi...

history

In the evening of March 5, 1770, a confrontation between Boston civilians and British soldiers erupted into violence, leaving five colonists dead in what became known as the Bos...