Histories of Judgment

Listed in: Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-220 | Moodle

Faculty: Sarah Johnson

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This guide contains links to primary and secondary sources for this historical research seminar. 

Directories of Famous Trials

  • Great American trials- Reference KF220 .G74 1994
  • Trials of the century: An encyclopedia of popular culture and the law [2 vols.]- Reference KF220 .J64 2011
  • Famous trials in history- Reference  K540 .C39 2012
  • Famous Trials

 

    • Avalon Project
      A collection of transcribed documents mostly pertaining to government and the law. Includes US founding documents, treatises dating back to the 16th century, US treaties, and WWII documents. Highlights include the Nuremberg War Crimes trial, the Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown, and the Project Diana collection (human rights cases).
    • Crime, Punishment and Popular Culture (1790-1920)
      Composed of over two million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, focusing on nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice.
    • Digitized Collections of Cornell University Law Library
      Includes documents from the Donovan Nuremberg Trials collection, the Scottsboro Trials collection, and the Trial Pamphlets collection.
    • Famous Trials
      Newspaper accounts, trial testimony, images, and bibliographies of a mix of over 70 trials that have captured public attention. Includes the Leo Frank Trial, Scottsboro Boys trials, and U.S. vs. Cecil Price (Mississippi Burning).
    • John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial of 1770
      Reports and transcripts of the court proceedings published in 1770, 1807, and 1824, held by the Law Library of Congress.
    • Piracy Trials (1696-1905)
      The Law Library of Congress's collection of digitized letters, reports, and proceedings of various piracy trials.
    • Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice (1490-2007)
      Thousands of pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images documenting the varieties and legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective, and the continued existence of slavery today.
    • Slaves and the Courts (American Memory)
      Manuscripts from the Special Collection Division of the Library of Congress. Most of the items date from the nineteenth century and include materials associated with the Dred Scott case and the abolitionist activities of John Brown, John Quincy Adams, and William Lloyd Garrison. Eighteenth-century cases include Somerset v. Stewart, decided in England a few years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which "underscored the great tension created by slavery in Anglo-American law."
    • Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914
      Studies in Scarlet includes American, British, and Irish cases 1815-1914 involving domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children, as well as trials for murder and rape. These trials are especially rich sources for the study of the history of women in early modern society.
    • African American Newspapers (Readex) (1827-1998)
      Provides access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers from more than 35 states and chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.
    • America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1980)
      Searchable archive of American newspapers including Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).
    • American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (1684-1912)
      A comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
    • American Periodicals (1740-1940)
      Digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 18th and 19th century newspapers and periodicals.
    • Chronicling America (1860-1922)
      Search or browse hundreds of newspapers through the Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program.
    • Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
      Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
    • Women's Magazine Archive
      A searchable archive of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st.
    • Access World News (Newsbank) (date coverage varies)
      Electronic editions of over 2,600 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as 1,500 international sources. Fully searchable and browsable by map.
    • Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
      Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
    • JSTOR
      Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
    • LexisNexis Academic (Now called: Nexis Uni) (date coverage varies)
      Full-text federal and state laws, international legal materials, and law reviews. Also newspapers, business information and company profiles.
    • Social Science Database (ProQuest)
      Covers academic literature for disciplines ranging from anthropology, sociology, and political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more.