Depending on who's doing the talking, those who have given away intelligence about the military and security infrastructure of the United States have been called spies, heroes, and traitors.

But knowing the historical contexts...

In episode 68 of Supreme Court Briefs, a Socialist Party leader distributes thousands of pamphlets encouraging young men to resist getting drafted to fight in World War One, but apparently that's illegal for real.

In episode 24 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man exposes dark government secrets about the Vietnam War, and gets in big trouble from the government for it. Should whistleblowers be protected?

Should the US government be allowed to spy on its citizens to protect society as a whole? There are arguments for and against – but the Big Brother state isn't a conspiracy theory, it's real!

If there’s one thing you hear over and over again in the American political discourse, it’s socialism as a word to represent generic badness. And America indeed doesn’t appear to have a left-wing party in their political system. Many...

American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. In this video, the documents...

A win for freedom of the press and a huge loss for governmental secrecy, check out the basics of this landmark Supreme Court decision.

With Biden's recent mishandling of classified Vice Presidential documents, many are comparing the situation with Trump's Mar-a-Lago scandal. So what exactly happened? How similar are these situations? And what does this mean for Biden's...

Do you have an absolute right to free speech? The Supreme Court gives it 1919 answer. Learn the basics about the must-know US History Supreme Court Case challenging the constitutionality of the Espionage Act. If you are in a US History...

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara creates the Vietnam Study Task Force at the Pentagon to create a study of the Vietnam War, which, by the way, was raging on the time with no end in sight. This study was to remain classified but...

Woodrow Wilson was president during a time when a lot was changing in the world. World War I broke out, and as hard as he tried to keep America out of it, it was inevitable that it enter the action, only to emerge as the world's premiere...

Travel back in time with HipHughes as he dips and dives through America's first red scare.