Download or read book The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach Us written by DOUGLAS O. LINDER and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After learning what makes a trial historically important, begin your survey of some of history's greatest trials with a visit to ancient Athens. It's here, in 399 B.C., that Socrates undergoes his trial for corrupting Athenians and disrespecting their gods. In the process, he lectures his jurors on the duty of seeking the truth.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been described as a travesty of justice. A circus. An important battle for the American people. A monumental non-event. Whatever conclusion you come to by the end of this lecture, few events better exemplify the conflict of values in the late 1960s than the trial of these eight radicals.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore medieval beliefs about justice through the lens of three strange trials from the Middle Ages. The first involves a dead pope put on trial. The second involves an accused adulterer's walk over red-hot ploughshares. The third involves a jousting battle whose victor will be vindicated as a matter of law.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No trial, according to Professor Linder, provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than the war crime trials in Nuremberg from 1945 to 1949. In this lecture, your focus is on the first of 12 trials, regarded by scholars as "The Trial of the Major War Criminals."

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Linder takes you inside the longest, most expensive criminal trial in American history (with a taxpayer cost of over {dollar}15 million dollars). It was also a trial that produced not a single conviction - but highlighted the dangerous problems that happen when police and prosecutors leap to conclusions.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of two lectures involving the nation's most famous defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow, focus on a trial involving a "thrill killing" by two rich and intelligent teenagers. Central to this lecture are Darrow's impassioned efforts to save the confessed murderers from the gallows by challenging the morality of capital punishment.

Download or read book A Pictorial History of the World s Great Trials written by Brandt Aymar and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's greatest desire was to save the Roman Republic. For this reason, he charged Gaius Verres, a provincial governor, with crimes against the people. Central to this insightful lecture are Cicero's five orations, the Actio Secunda, which aimed to educate the Roman public about the corruption and rot in its political system.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense lawyer Clarence Darrow also made history defending high-school teacher John Scopes at 1925's famous "Monkey" Trial. Discover how the case that put the theory of evolution on trial brought to Tennessee a three-time presidential candidate, a flock of international reporters, and the battle for 1920s social mores.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In great trials, can politics and justice ever be kept entirely separate? Explore this question by considering the conspiracy trial of Aaron Burr. This case, presided over by Chief Justice John Marshall, set the precedent that no one in the United States - even the president - is above the law.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine how the legal nightmare of the "Scottsboro Boys" trials extended for decades. It launched and ended careers. It educated the public about the plight of African-Americans. It divided - then united - America's political left. And it illustrates what was wrong with America's justice system in the 1930s.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probe the far-reaching political effects of the trial of former State Department official Alger Hiss for perjury. They include: catapulting Richard Nixon to national fame; setting the stage for Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting; and marking the start of a conservative political movement that would put Ronald Reagan in the White House.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Giordano Bruno's ideas on natural philosophy so dangerous to 16th-century thought? Why does his execution represent a failure of the Roman Inquisition to perform its mission to admonish, not punish? What impact did this trial have on another heresy case fifteen years later: that of Galileo?

Download or read book Pictorial History of the World s Great Trials written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go back to March 1909, when the Supreme Court assembled to do something it had never done before and would never do again: listen to closing arguments in a criminal case. Learn how Sheriff Joseph Shipp's trial impacted the act of lynching and its relationship to the rule of law.

Download or read book The Great Trials of World History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to Westminster Hall on July 1, 1535, when Sir Thomas Moore stood on trial for his refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. Discover the story of how one of England's most revered men ended up on the chopping block and why it is both important and instructive.