The struggle between the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Mine Owners' Association at the turn of the twentieth century might well be ...
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, ...
The players on the Charles Comiskey's 1919 Chicago White Sox team were a fractious lot with plenty to complain about. The club was divided into tw...
Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial ...
Few trial transcripts are as likely to bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Decades after Clar...
The early 1920s found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists...
No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged...
TRIAL OF THE ROSENBERGS: AN ACCOUNTBY DOUG LINDER (2001)The Rosenberg Trial is the sum of many stories: a love story, a spy story, a story of a family...
The Trials of Lenny Bruceby Doug Linder (2003)In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lenny Bruce was the spirit of hipness and rebellion. His underdog, id...