Trial Proceedings, Societal Attitudes, and the Hawthorne Connection In 1821, the case of State of Connecticut v. Ammi Rogers led to the enactment of the first state statute criminalizing post-quickening abortions. This case, cited in the legal pre-history of Roe v. Wade, set a critical legal...
The Untold Story—Behind the Scarlet Letter: A Scandal that Shaped America’s Legal History In the early 1800s, America was grappling with evolving views on morality, law, and women’s rights. The case that inspired Behind the Scarlet Letter involved a young seamstress, a minister, and a doctor...
Time to dig into the past. Before I go too far, a recap of the sort of records that exist out there is in order. Though many primary source documents are just a few clicks of the keyboard away, nothing replaces a trip to a...
C.S. Forester, famous for the Hornblower series, once described himself as a jellyfish drifting along on the ocean currents waiting to absorb the nourishment of ideas, which would eventually become a plot, story line, character or outline. James A. Michener described the process of writing...