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The Trial of Louis Riel(英)
2023-12-07Note: Over the years that I've maintained the Famous Trials website, I have received a number of emails from Canadian visitors suggesting that I a...
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden(英)
2023-12-07Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Actually, the Bordens rece...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde(英)
2023-12-07Old Bailey, the main courthouse in London, had never presented a show quite like the three trials that captivated England and much of the literary wor...
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Bill Haywood Trial(英)
2023-12-07The struggle between the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Mine Owners' Association at the turn of the twentieth century might well be ...
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Sheriff Shipp Trial(英)
2023-12-07Only once in its history has the United States Supreme Court conducted a criminal trial. The trial, taking place in both Tennessee and the District of...
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Triangle Fire Trial(英)
2023-12-07It was a warm spring Saturday in New York City, March 25, 1911. On the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building just off of Washington Square, ...
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Black Sox Trial(英)
2023-12-07The players on the Charles Comiskey's 1919 Chicago White Sox team were a fractious lot with plenty to complain about. The club was divided into tw...
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Sacco-Vanzetti Trial(英)
2023-12-07Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial ...
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Leopold and Loeb Trial: A Brief Account(英)
2023-12-07Few trial transcripts are as likely to bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Decades after Clar...
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial(英)
2023-12-07The early 1920s found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists...