Famous Trials Online by Douglas O. Linder (2007) This page will be constructed in 2007

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TENTATIVE Course Syllabus Colonial America 1. The Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692): The Power of Fear 2.  The Boston Massacre Trial (1770): Tensions on the Verge of a Revolution "Bookending" the Civil War 3.  The Trial of John Brown (1859): The Trial that Made the Civil War Inevitable 4.  The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial (1865): Retribution or Reconciliation? 5.  The Trial of Susan B. Anthony (1873): Equal Protection of the Laws--For Whom? Great 20th Century Issues 6.  The Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925): The Controversy that Refuses to Die 7.  The "Scottsboro Boys" Trials (1931-37): An American Tragedy 8.  The Nuremberg Trials (1945-49): The World Confronts Evil 9.   "Mississippi Burning" Trial (1968):  A Trial that Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement Concluding Thoughts 10.  The Importance of Teaching Famous Trials

Syllabus for Famous Trials Seminar

"History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many
biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have."
--David McCullough

"The best use of history is as an incoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments."
--George Will

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