Author: Jessica Barnett
The Copyright and the Commodore
February 4, 2023
From naval service to the first federal copyright. Maybe?...
Read More In Defense of Mobsters
January 27, 2023
Dillinger had the "Lady in Red." His associate, Henry Pierpont, had this lady in law....
Read More In Defense of a Monster
January 20, 2023
Sometimes criminal defense work means you have to defend a monster....
Read More Before Rosa
January 13, 2023
Rosa Parks set off a civil rights firestorm. Learn about the person who lit the match....
Read More The Printer’s Legal Woes
December 23, 2022
The tale of the legal woes of the man who printed one of the world's most famous bibles....
Read More How Bad Was It Really?
December 16, 2022
Every American law student knows Hawkins v. McGee...
Read More The Seventh
December 2, 2022
The complicated story of "Tokyo Rose," the seventh person convicted and sentenced for treason in the United States....
Read More The Bequest
November 18, 2022
Who is John Smithson? And what does he have to do with preserving history?...
Read More She Did It Her Way
November 11, 2022
Suffragist and Temperance Movement leader Amanda Way predated many better-known figures of both movements...
Read More I Ain’t Afraid of No…
October 28, 2022
Who you gonna call when you're trying to sell a haunted house?...
Read More Before Jackie
October 7, 2022
If Jackie Robinson was not the first African American MLB player...
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