There are two kinds of U.S. Supreme Court justices who are less likely to retire: those who have power, and those who don’t have it but retain a strong sense…
Few lawyers today have a practice as diverse as Abraham Lincoln’s was in the years before the Civil War. But it was a caseload that still should sound familiar to…
When Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he had less experience in public office than almost every president who had preceded him. His career in government amounted to eight years…
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the great moments in American history. At the time, even President Lincoln had to calm himself down. He was so nervous…
There are, undoubtedly, advantages to being the king or queen of England. But one disadvantage is that those who so desire can’t marry a Catholic and retain the British throne.…
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