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Trials of the century : an encyclopedia of popular culture and the law

Covers important criminal, civil, and political trials in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their impact on both legal history and popular culture
eBook, English, ©2011
ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, ©2011
dissertations
1 online resource
9781598842623, 1598842625
702674902
V. 1. The Anne Hutchinson Trials (1637-1638) ; Salem witchcraft trials (1692) ; John Peter Zenger Trial (1735) ; The "Great Negro Plot" trials (1741) ; The Boston Massacre trials (1770) ; Impeachment trial of Samuel Chase (1805) ; The treason trial of Aaron Burr (1807) ; The trial of Nat Turner (1831) ; Richard Lawrence trial (1835) ; Amistad trials (1839-1841) ; The Carthage conspiracy trial (1844) ; Dr. John W. Webster trial (1850) ; Missouri v. Celia, a slave (1855) ; Dred Scott trials (1847-1857) ; The trial of John Brown (1859) ; The Dakota conflict trials (1862) ; The trial of Lambdin P. Milligan (1864) ; Lincoln conspiracy trial (1865) ; Henry Wirz trial (1865) ; Andrew Johnson impeachment trial (1865) ; Susan B. Anthony trial (1873) ; Henry Ward Beecher trial (1875) ; The Mountain Meadows Massacre trials (1875-1876) ; The O.K. Corral trial (1881) ; Charles Guiteau trial (1881-1882) ; The Haymarket riot trial (1886) ; Lizzie Borden Tiral (1893) ; Herman Mudgett (alias "Henry Holmes") trial (1895) ; Leon Czolgosz trial (1901) ; The trial of William "Big Bill" Haywood (1907) ; The Harry Thaw murder trials (1907-1908) ; The trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp et al. (1907-1909) ; The triangle shirtwaist fire trial (1911) ; Leo Frank trial (1913) ; Joe Hill Trial (1914) ; The Chicago Black Sox trial (The State of Illinois v. Eddie Cicotte et al., 1921) ; Sacco and Vanzetti Trial (1921) ; Fatty Arbuckle trials (1921-1922) ; Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb trial (1924) ; The court-martial trial of General William Mitchell (1925)