U.S. Laws and Legislation

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Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
Clarence Thomas
Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees
A 2017 protest march in San Francisco calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
American Presidential Scandals
The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was one of the bloodiest in history: 8 million people lost their lives in Europe's deadliest religious conflict.
Secularism, Past and Future
Insulin shock therapy being administered in the 1950s to a psychiatric patient.
America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
Dr. Aleš Hrdlička
“No law can change our blood"
Interstate 80 near Berkeley, CA.
How Public and Private Enterprise Have Built American Infrastructure
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman-Hughes in 1972.
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"
The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now
Richard and Mildred Loving in June, 1967.
At the Movies: "The Loving Cup"
Collage: On the left, a group of men emptying liquor bottles during Prohibition. On the right, a field of marijuana plants
Hooked: Drugs, Prohibition, and American Cities
Color bars in a television test pattern.
Media and Politics in the Age of Trump
Collapsed bridge
America's Infrastructure Challenge
Top view of engineer at desk with laptop, hardhat, and blueprints
Origins interviews the American Society of Civil Engineers
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.
G-Men, Gays, and Government
President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.
Executive Conservation
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate
Buying American Elections?
August 1976 cover from Ms. Magazine.
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
United States-Mexico border.
Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas
Amish schoolhouse in 1941 Pennsylvania.
1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum
A sign that reads, "Keep Govment out of Medicade Dammit!"
An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History
Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field
Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?