To draw attention to the inequalities and oppressive laws facing women in pre-Civil War America, Stanton drafted a “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was later signed by 68 women and 32 men. In July ...
The Tenth Circuit said the program complied with the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, rejecting ...
A challenge to a formula used by a county outside of Washington, D.C., to determine who can attend public magnet schools ...
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This program is presented in partnership with The Journal of the Civil War Era. Robert D. Bland is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Requiem for ...
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the ...
John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (1692-1750) were co-authors of Cato’s Letters (1720-23). Trenchard was a radical Whig. In the 1690s, during the Standing Army Controversy, he wrote two ...
In 1838, Abraham Lincoln delivered this address to the Young Men’s Lyceum, a debating society in Springfield, Illinois, in the wake of growing mob violence, including the 1837 killing of abolitionist ...
“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Petitioner John F. Tinker, 15 years old, and ...
Mercy Otis Warren was deeply connected in the world of Massachusetts Revolutionary politics. The sibling of James Otis, she became friends and regular correspondents with many of the state’s leaders, ...
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