United States, Criminal Procedure, Legal History, American Famous Trials, America 

"Both historians and the general public have long shared a fascination with judicial proceedings. Newspapers give extensive coverage to trials, both those that command national attention and the many that appeal to local interest. Fictional trials are a steady theme of television and film. Legislative hearings and similar quasi-judicial public investigations have periodically fixed public attention on a wide variety of phenomena, among them the Ku Klux Klan; the insurance, armaments, and tobacco industries; Brooklyn's murder Incorporated; Communists in government; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the Watergate affair; and sexual harassment. Historians study these trials and hearing not only to gain an understanding of the case or issue under examination, but also to deepen understanding of the society in which they occurred. As the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis writes, "a remarkable dispute can sometimes uncover motivations and values that are lost in the welter of the everyday" - Preface 

Contents:
v. 1. Dissenting puritan: the trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, 1637 -- Salem witchcraft: the trial of Bridget Bishop, 1692 -- Freedom of the press: the trial of John Peter Zenger for libel, 1735 -- Toward the Constitution: the action of John Trevett against John Wheeden for refusing paper money, 1786 -- Protecting incorporation: Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819 -- Juvenile justice: the trial of Stephen Merrill Clark for arson, 1821 -- Indian removal: Samuel A. Worcester v. The state of Georgia, 1832 -- Murder in the city: the trial of Richard P. Robinson for the murder of Helen Jewett, 1836 -- The trade in human beings: the United States v. The Amistad, 1841 -- Demon rum: the trial of William Wilbar against B.W. Williams and others for libel, 1845 -- The color line: the trial of Mrs. Margaret Douglass for teaching colored children to read, 1853 -- "His truth is marching on": the trial of John Brown for treason and insurrection, 1859 -- "This terrible war": the trial of Captain Henry Wirz for conspiracy and murder, 1865 -- Reconstruction in the south: the lynching of Jim Williams, 1871. 

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