For the first time, the United States government was prosecuting a filmmaker for sedition over the contents of a movie, a ...

It began in a courtroom in 1761, a decade and a half before the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was charged with enumerating the colonial grievances against the ...

For nearly 75 years, the colony of Pennsylvania had sustained a relatively peaceful era thanks to its Quaker principles of pacifism. However, the French and Indian War—an international contest ...