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An Account of Events in Salem
2023-12-07From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near...
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John Peter Zenger Trial
2023-12-07No country values free expression more highly than does the United States, and no case in American history stands as a greater landmark on the road to...
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The Aaron Burr Trial
2024-10-01Never has an American trial produced such an impressive set of key players:the defendant—— Aaron Burr, founding father, Vice President, an...
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Amistad Trials
2024-10-01The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the mos...
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The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial
2023-12-07In May, 1868, the Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented step of removing a president from office. Although the impeachment tria...
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The O. K. Corral Trial
2023-12-07The Old West's most famous gunbattle lasted all of about thirty seconds, but it left three men dead, three other men shot, and enough questions to...
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Louis Riel Trial
2023-12-07By modern standards, the North-West Rebellion seems no big deal. Canadian forces easily quelled the uprising of a couple of hundred Metis settlers alo...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
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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Only 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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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial
2024-10-04It 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, ...