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People Archives:Supreme Court Justices

Photo of a flag outside the NAACP office with "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday" on it.

This Journalist Risked His Life to Reveal the Horrors of Lynching in the South

by Peter Carlson1/31/20232/26/2024

Lynching investigator Walter White risked everything to tell Americans the truth.

Ku Klux Klan marching down Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C ca. 1926. (Photo by: Hum Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

It Started as a KKK Publicity Stunt. It Became a Defining Supreme Court Free Speech Case.

by Daniel B. Moskowitz1/3/20231/26/2023
Meeting of Lincoln's cabinet

Book Review: Ways and Means / Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

by Rick Beard11/28/20224/29/2024
The removal of the Cherokee Native Americans to the West in 1838. Oil on canvas, 1942, by Robert Lindneux.

The Supreme Court Case That Decided Indian Sovereignty

by Daniel B. Moskowitz9/6/20229/6/2022

How an 1837 Boston Bridge Dispute Redefined Private-Public Rights

by Daniel B. Moskowitz3/25/20223/24/2022

This Slave-Holding Abolitionist and Founding Father Helped Free New York’s Slaves

by Karen Whitehair10/26/202110/26/2021

The Supreme Court Decision That Changed America: Brown v. Board of Education

by Daniel B. Moskowitz3/16/20213/15/2021

In 1800 Political Parties Used Court-Packing to Establish Legacy. Here’s How

by Richard Brookhiser1/5/20214/29/2024

SCOTUS Ruling that Corporations are ‘Citizens,’ Opens Up Courts To Business Lawsuits

by By Danie B. Moskowitz12/16/20201/11/2021
Supreme Court Ginsburg Lying in State

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The First Woman in American History to Lie in State

by Claire Barrett9/25/20208/19/2022

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