Editor's note: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was featured in The Eagle's 2011 series, compiled and written by the late Brian Sullivan, that featured notable Pittsfield residents. This capsule is ...

Supreme Court justices are not known to be EGOTs (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners). And only a few plays have ever highlighted black-robed justices, and even fewer feature justices twice. But ...

The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins to Catharine Pierce Wells in connection with her new book, “Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Willing Servant to an Unknown God” (Cambridge ...

On Nov. 10, 1919, in his famous dissent from the Supreme Court decision in Abrams v. United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes argued for “a free trade in ideas”—even dangerous ideas that we ...

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – The Cambridge Public Library has added a new piece to its collection – a letter by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The letter, written in 1890, declines an invitation from the Cambridge ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. After serving in the Civil War, during which he was wounded, Oliver Wendell ...

Writing a century ago this weekend, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. created our modern understanding of the First Amendment. Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes around 1924.Credit.

Prologue: "What a medley of a man!" -- Dr. Holmes's Boston -- A New England boyhood -- Harvard's regiment -- The wilderness -- "Society of jobbists" -- The common law ...

Once upon a time, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was the great modern American jurist. The “Yankee from Olympus,” as Catherine Drinker Bowen’s 1944 biography called Holmes, was the first celebrity justice ...

If you ever have a few minutes of spare time, read about the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Although he didn’t grow beyond 63 inches (you can do the math) and suffered from asthma as a child, ...