From June through September of 1692， nineteen men and women， all having been convicted of witchcraft， were carted to Gallows Hill， a barren slope near...
Never has an American trial produced such an impressive set of key players：the defendant—— Aaron Burr， founding father， Vice President， and slayer of ...
The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the mos...
In May， 1868， the Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented step of removing a president from office. Although the impeachment tria...
By modern standards， the North-West Rebellion seems no big deal. Canadian forces easily quelled the uprising of a couple of hundred Metis settlers alo...
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...
It 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， ...
Journalist H. L. Mencken called the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper of the baby of aviator Charles Lindbergh, “the greatest story sinc...
In 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...
No 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...