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In honor of Women’s History Month, we are exploring the pioneering career of Frances Perkins. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt made her the fourth Secretary of Labor, making her the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. Perkins’ remarkable career shaped the current social safety net and labor market that Americans live and work in.

A woman didn’t graduate from law school until 1870, when Ada Kepley graduated from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law. Women didn’t serve as lawyers until 1896, when Arabella Mansfield was admitted to the Iowa bar. A woman didn’t serve on a federal court until 1928, when President Calvin Coolidge appointed Genevieve Rose Cline to the U.S. Customs Court. Men dominated the legal field until well into the 20th century. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting five women who broke down barriers and became trailblazers for women in law.

Between 1930 and 1931, near the town of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, 3,000 men worked in ten-hour shifts drilling a three-mile tunnel through the side of a mountain. Within five years, more than 750 of those men would die of a deadly and preventable disease. Keep reading to learn more about the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster, the single deadliest industrial incident in American history, and its influence on the struggles for worker’s rights and safety regulations in the United States.

Sherlock scholars, known as Sherlockians, have traditionally celebrated January 1, 1881, as the day Holmes and Watson met. So in honor of another new year, this January on the HeinOnline Blog we are indulging our literary side, proving that HeinOnline truly is a multidisciplinary platform by using it to explore some interesting facts about Sherlock Holmes.

In the waning days of World War I in 1918, Eugene Debs, the most famous socialist in America, delivered a speech in Ohio denouncing war. Two weeks later, he was arrested and imprisoned for his words, and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. In 1920, he decided to run for president from his prison cell, ultimately waging the most successful campaign by a socialist candidate in American history.

December 15 marks Bill of Rights Day, commemorating the 1791 ratification of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights. Today, these rights—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to due process, right to a fair trial, etc.—are engrained in American culture as pillars of liberty and democracy. However, crafting a Bill of Rights was highly controversial at the time. Take a trip back to the early days of American history with us while we explore the creation and passage of the Bill of Rights using resources you can find in HeinOnline.

The term “cult” is a controversial one—often, we use the word to describe belief systems that we think are “weird,” or that don’t align with the more standard world religions. For the purpose of this blog, we use “cult” to refer to groups with a leader who exerted an excessive and dangerous amount of control over their followers that resulted in deaths.

Whether you’re a student or a researcher, finding the right articles for your work is crucial. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through four simple and effective methods to access the wealth of information available in the Law Journal Library. Watch this short tutorial or keep reading to learn how to locate an article.

Barbenheimer defined Summer 2023 and even the HeinOnline Blog couldn’t escape the movie event of the year. We gave Barbie the HeinOnline treatment last month, and so this month it’s Oppenheimer’s turn, with a special focus on J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance hearing in 1954.

This month, we’re going to look into one of the past year’s most talked-about subjects in education: AI and its role in the classroom. Keep reading for an experiment with ChatGPT (I try to plagiarize one of my own assignments) and a roundup of debates and discussion of AI and ChatGPT taking place right now on HeinOnline.