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An Account of Events in Salem
2024-10-14From 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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The Aaron Burr Trial
2023-11-24Never has an American trial produced such an impressive set of key players:the defendant—— Aaron Burr, founding father, Vice President, and slayer of ...
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Amistad Trials
2023-11-24The 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
2023-11-24In 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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Louis Riel Trial
2023-11-24By 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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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
2023-11-24It 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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Hauptmann (Lindbergh) Trial(英)
2023-11-24Journalist H. L. Mencken called the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper of the baby of aviator Charles Lindbergh, “the greatest story sinc...
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The Trial of Galileo(英)
2023-11-24In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of Sch...
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Nuremberg Trials(英)
2024-10-01No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949. Those who come to the...