Archives for May 2016

Explorers Among the Indians

As we turn the ancient, worm-eaten page which preserves the simple record of his fortunes, a wild and dreary scene rises before the mind . . . .

by Jack Le MoineToday is Memorial Day.HAPPY MEMORIAL DAYWe remember the sacrifice of those who died in service to the United States of

The penal statutes form a very small proportion of the sixty-two books of the Code and Pandects . . . .Justinian Code Published, featuring a series

This series has four easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Western Europe at This Time.IntroductionThe people of Islam had

http://gty.im/520683355God is the brave man's hope; not the coward's excuse.- PlutarchHe wrote bigraphies of great people of the ancient

The free citizens of Athens and Rome enjoyed in all criminal cases the invaluable privilege of being tried by their country.Justinian Code

By the Indian standard, it was a mighty nation; yet the entire Huron population did not exceed that of a third or fourth class American city. In the

I had gone perhaps fifteen or twenty yards when a trooper galloped up and ordered me to halt and surrender . . . .Today's installment concludes

This was, I believe, the last armed conflict of the war, and, though very small in comparison to its great battles, it deserves notice as having