In "Unexampled Courage," Richard Gergel tells the story of racial violence that inspired a landmark court decision and the integration of the U.S. armed forces. Karen Grigsby Bates from our Code ...

By David W. Blight UNEXAMPLED COURAGE The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring By Richard Gergel In “Reconstruction,” an ...

Kenneth W. Mack, a historian and a professor of law at Harvard, is the author of “Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer” and co-editor of “The New Black: What Has ...

Waties Waring, presided over the long-forgotten case with a very different ending, reached in just 28 minutes. Judge Gergel tells the story in his new book, "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt.

Isaac Woodard served in the Pacific theater during World War II, winning a battle star for unloading ships under enemy fire in New Guinea. Mustered out of the Army in February 1946, the 26-year ...

According to him, relations between the peoples of Russia and Cuba "are unexampled". "The level of the highest mutual understanding, friendship - this is a very good and sound foundation for you ...