Learn about trial by jury in this tutorial where you exercise your responsibility as a citizen by serving on a jury and deciding on a case. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.

This resource provides a very basic biography of the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The verdict is in and the U.S. is in a recession. Find a succinct explanation of the 2008 recession and backtrack to the Great Depression. Follow up with discussion questions and a lesson plan complete with a glossary of terms. December...

Presents a thorough examination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Read about the charges against the men, the trial, and the long-standing controversy surrounding the verdict.

Check out this interactive timeline of the right to trial by an impartial jury in the United States.

Check out this interactive timeline of the history of right to trial by jury in federal civil cases in the United States.

This is a site that examines the issue of school vouchers. Tends to lean in favor of vouchers, but contains a great deal of information on both sides of the issue. Includes scholarly articles that look at the evidence of the results of...

Read about the New York Court of Appeals case "Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co." (1928), the events that led up to the case, the final verdict, and how this case affected the legal system.

In 2000, Enron was the darling of Wall Street, the largest seller of natural gas in North America, the fifth largest corporation in the United States, and the nation's "most innovative" large company (according to Fortune magazine). By...

A partial biography of Calley that gives sketches of what people thought about him. The verdict and sentence he received is also covered.

This lesson plan features the Latin roots DICT, DIC, DIT = speak, declare; VEN, VENT = come; DUCT, DUC = lead. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle will have directions, a clue and a...

A background look at the violent war crimes and legal violations committed in Sierra Leone which led to the creation of the United Nations War Crimes Court in January 2002. The Special Court started to deliver verdicts for the crimes in...

It seemed like an open-and-shut case. The George Holliday video, played on television so often that an executive at CNN called it "wallpaper," showed three Los Angeles police officers--as their supervisor watched-- kicking, stomping on,...

Brief description of the trial and verdict that sent Al Capone to prison, in 1931, for tax evasion.