1246 ABA Journal Legal History articles.
Embattled U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales appeared unfazed at a lunchtime lecture in Miami, despite a pending Senate no-confidence vote scheduled for later in the day.
The vote would have no…
Jun 11, 2007 9:32 PM CDT
U.S. Constitution Is Ratified
Jun 5, 2007 8:48 AM CDT
On this day in 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America was established as men landed by the Virginia Charter Company on Jamestown Island, in what is now…
May 14, 2007 11:00 AM CDT
On this day in 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed, due to government misconduct. (The administration of President Richard M. Nixon was implicated in…
May 11, 2007 11:00 AM CDT
In all the arguing over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be asked to resign, several important facts seem to have been forgotten, a former member of Congress says.
…May 7, 2007 10:05 PM CDT
On this day in 1886, someone among 200 or so workers at a labor rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square threw a bomb into a group of 176 police officers. Police…
May 4, 2007 5:01 PM CDT
New York lawyer jay Harris knows a good play when he sees one–and he’s got the brass to back it up, including a Tony Award for his production of Side…
May 1, 2007 7:39 PM CDT
Evolution Teacher John Scopes Indicted
May 1, 2007 11:16 AM CDT
On this day in 1773, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. Enormously unpopular in America, where colonials considered its grant of a virtual tea monopoly to the East India…
Apr 27, 2007 11:00 AM CDT
On this day in 1792, the guillotine reportedly was first used in France to execute a highwayman, Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier. At the time, despite its subsequent notoriety as a means of…
Apr 26, 2007 5:08 PM CDT
On this day in 1898, the U.S. declared war against Spain, involving America in Cuba’s struggle for independence. For details, see this Library of Congress Web…
Apr 25, 2007 5:14 PM CDT
On this day in 1800, President John Adams approved a then-hefty $5,000 appropriation to establish the Library of Congress, 20 percent of which went for law books (mainly on British…
Apr 24, 2007 5:21 PM CDT
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist whose well-known book, The Best and the Brightest, was a fascinating window for many on the elite lawyers and others wielding political power in Washington,…
Apr 24, 2007 12:53 AM CDT
It’s official—DNA evidence today has cleared a 200th wrongfully convicted person, according to The Innocence Project, a New York City-based advocacy group.
The 200th person to be released, Jerry Miller,…
Apr 23, 2007 11:43 PM CDT
Putting an end to a long career of “firsts,” Arkansas federal judge George Howard Jr. died April 21. He was 82.
The first African-American judge to sit on a federal…
Apr 23, 2007 10:37 PM CDT
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