HIS 292: Trials in United States History: Web links

Is the content correct, true, and verifiable via another source?

Can you identify the author(s)? Are individuals or organizations responsible for the content? What are the author(s)' credentials?

Are links up-to-date? Are the pages dated and current enough for your assignment? Is the content free of errors and misspellings?

Why did the author create this page? Was there a specific reason or viewpoint to promote?

Is the content treated in a scholarly manner with evidence supporting assertions? Where did the author(s) get the information on the page?

Library of Congress

Includes trial transcripts

Cornell University Library

University of North Carolina

University Of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law

Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell University Law School

From Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Interactive database.

Leigh B. Bienen is a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law and a criminal defense attorney whose areas of expertise include capital punishment, sex crimes, and rape reform legislation. She is the Director of the Chicago Historical Homicide Project, work involving the analysis and exegesis of a hand written data set kept by the Chicago Police of more than 11,000 homicides in Chicago from 1870-1930. The original data set along with contextual and archival materials is available on an interactive web site, History of Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930.

February 9, 2015. New York Times compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative.

Benjamin Ray and The University of Virginia

From the National Archives

National Center for State Courts