In arguably one of the most controversial opinions of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) contributed to the Panic of 1857 and defined the debates of the Illinois senate race in 1858 between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.

Wollstonecraft expresses frustration regarding how these noble thinkers could be so blind to what she considered to be their blatant and obtuse hypocritical reasoning.

Being observant, I inquired of my friend as to why there are no pasty restaurants in the old mining town of Nevada City just a few miles away.

Beginning in the mid-19th century, aggressive German military expansion and aggressive, ill-conceived foreign policy created tension and fear among the neighboring European nations. As a result of the personalities of the leaders of these nations and the entangled military and economic alliances among the same countries, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand became the first domino in a series of events which culminated in “the war to end all wars.”

William Bowers Bourn was the original owner of the Empire Mine Company. According to Roger A. Lescohler in The Story of the Empire Mine, 1850-1956, Bourn was a descendant of Jared Bourn “who came from England in 1630 with John Winthrop, the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.”

The significance of the Petition of Right of 1628 is not that the Petition established new rights by some act of Parliament but that the Petition sought enforcement of rights that the Five Knights already possessed by and through Magna Carta.

Magna Carta, in its simplest terms, was a very specific peace treaty between the monarch and the nobility which contained 63 specific paragraphs regarding the future relationship between the parties thereto.