An Introduction to the My Lai Courts-MartialBy Doug LinderTwo tragedies took place in 1968 in Viet Nam. One was the massacre by United States soldiers...
The Trials of Alger Hiss: A Commentaryby Doug Linder (2003)No criminal case had a more far-reaching effects on modern American politics than the Alger...
If I thought any of you had any opinion about the guilt of my clients, I wouldn't worry, because that might be changed. What I'm worried about...
The arrest, trial, and execution of John Brown in the fall of 1859 came at a critical moment in United State history. According to historian David S. ...
Although it has been over two centuries since the moonlit March night in 1770 when British soldiers killed five Bostonians on King Street, people stil...
The trial and execution of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the wor...
The Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trialby Douglas O. LinderWhat did it all mean? Was the Chicago Seven Trial merely, as one commentator suggested, “a monum...
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...
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...
Journalist H. L. Mencken called the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper of the baby of aviator Charles Lindbergh, “the greatest story sinc...