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Trials in American History: HIST 2106/2906

Library resources that support Prof. Ralph Young's course, Trials in American History

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Electronic Books Related to Trials

The following books, which contain a mixture of primary and secondary sources, are available for reading online through Temple University Libraries. Simply click on the title to access the full-text book online.

Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony ... at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872 [electronic resource] by Anthony, Susan B.
Published in 1874 in Rochester N.Y
Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers [electronic resource] : Primary Documents on Events of the Period by David A. Copeland
Call Number: E187 .C78 2000eb
ISBN: 0313309825
Chapter 5 discusses the trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735
Escaping Salem [electronic resource] : The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 by Richard Godbeer
Call Number: KFC3678.8.W5 G66 2005eb
ISBN: 0195161300
Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Trials (Witchcraft) -- Connecticut -- Stamford -- History -- 17th century
Summer For the Gods [electronic resource] : The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson.
Call Number: KF224.S3 (INTERNET)
ISBN: 0465075096
Published in 1997. Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Scopes, John Thomas -- Trials, litigation, etc.
They Shall Not Die! [electronic resource] : The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures : Stop the Legal Lynching! by Amis, B. D.
Call Number: KF224.S34 (INTERNET)
Published in 1932. Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said [electronic resource] : the Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decision by edited with an introduction by Jack M. Balkin
Call Number: KF228.B76 W48 2001eb
ISBN: 081479890X
Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Brown, Oliver, 1918- -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- History.
Witchcraft, Magic and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts by Richard Weisman
Call Number: KFM2478.8.W5 W44 1984eb
ISBN: 9780870234941
Publication Date: 1985-07-01
Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH): Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts.

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