No 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...
The true story of the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty is far more complicated than suggested by film versions of the event, which have emphasized the gratui...
Never has an American trial produced such an impressive set of key players: the defendant-- Aaron Burr, founding father, Vice President, and slayer o...
A framed photograph of the scene depicted on this homepage, the execution of thirty-eight Sioux on December 26, 1862, used to fascinate me when, as a ...
“Susan B. Anthony is not on trial; the United States is on trial.“--Matilda Joslyn Gage More than any other woman of her generation, Susan B. Anthony ...
Called “the darkest deed of the nineteenth century,“ the brutal 1857 murder of 120 men, women, and children at a place in southern Utah called Mountai...
The Old West's most famous gun battle lasted all of about thirty seconds, but it left three men dead, three other men shot, and enough questions t...
Note: 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...
Lizzie 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...
Old 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...