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Clyde H. Bellecourt
C LYDEB ELLECOURT Born: 1939 White Earth Reservation, Minnesota Native American tribal activist As one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Clyde Bellecourt has been an activist for the rights of Native Americans for... Read more |
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Lewinsky scandal
Lewinsky scandal , sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998-99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate. Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state worker who claimed that Bill Clinton had accosted her sexually in 1991... Read more |
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Texas v. White
TEXAS V. WHITE In the aftermath of the u.s. civil war, several questions about the legal status of the Southern states that had seceded from the Union remained unanswered. These questions included whether these states had, in fact, left the Union, whether the acts of the secessionist governments... Read more |
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Pre-existence
Pre-Existence The question of pre-existence has come to the fore throughout Western history. Some people adhere to the Hebraic and Christian notions that the individual is created during the period between conception and birth and other people believe the human soul is somehow immortal, neither... Read more |
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Common-Law Marriage
COMMON-LAW MARRIAGE A union of two people not formalized in the customary manner as prescribed by law but created by an agreement to marry followed by cohabitation. A fundamental question in marriage is whether the union is legally recognized. This question is important because marriage affects... Read more |
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Conundrum
Conundrum BIBLIOGRAPHY Conundrums are problems of several types. They may be riddles with a pun for an answer. They may be puzzling problems that are complicated with intricate features. And they may be presented in the fashion of a rhetorical question, but with only conjecture for an... Read more |
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Oliver Ames
AMES, OAKES Oakes Ames (1804–1873) was a U.S. manufacturer and five-term member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the principal financier of the Union Pacific Railroad, the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad. Unfortunately, in his zeal to complete this... Read more |
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