On September 22, 1692, the last persons were hanged in what became the United States for witchcraft. 19 people were hanged, 1 was pressed to death, 2 died in prison, and over 250 people were arrested. “After a number of the town’s teenagers began to hallucinate and convulse, bark like dogs and run around on …
My Country – English Only Laws On April 9, 1919, Nebraska passed a law outlawing any person in any school to teach any subject in any language other than English. One Meyer was convicted under the law for teaching a collection of Bible stories in German at a Lutheran school. The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld …