Courts, Civil Liberties, and Equal Protection
In 1961, a Florida man named Clarence Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He asked the court for a lawyer, was told the state only provided one in capital cases, and defended himself. He lost. From prison he wrote a petition to the Supreme Court in pencil. Keep building this skill Practice […]
Cold War, Decolonization, Civil Rights, and Recent History
For roughly forty-five years after 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union never fought each other directly. They fought everywhere else: through allies, proxy wars, spies, aid packages, rockets, and arguments about which system offered people a better life. That last part turned out to matter at home as much as abroad. Keep building […]
