What do Cornell University, Kansas State University, and Florida A&M University have in common? They are three of the hundreds of land-grant universities in the United States.
The exposure of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1972 shocked the nation. More than fifty years later, its impact upon public health continues.
Human beings have lived in space since 1972. Keep reading to learn more about the history and law of space stations in HeinOnline.
The City of Washington, D.C. occupies a unique legal position, as both the seat of government to the United States, and the home of more than 700,000 residents, who are subject to a distinctive set of laws and restrictions.
Facing Congressional scrutiny, in 1954 the comic book industry adopted the Comics Code to self-censor the content published in comics. The Code remained in effect for nearly 60 years.
New York State described the end of the uprising at Attica Correctional Facility as “the bloodiest 1-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War.” In this post, we explore the uprising’s origins, its deadly conclusion, and aftermath.
In 1852, a fleet of American warships known as the Perry Expedition arrived in Tokyo Bay, demanding the admittance of American trade to Japan. The resulting treaties, signed under threat of force, would forever transform the global power structure.
In 1978, the federal government nearly decriminalized marijuana—until a White House drug scandal vanished those plans in a puff of smoke.
In the wake of the Civil War, Reconstruction sought to reshape America. Its legacy remains contested.
The five United States territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are home to 3.62 million people. The people of these islands lack voting representatives in Congress, and are provided with only a fraction of the Constitutional protections afforded to U.S. citizens in the States.
