4. Find Sources

Once you have researched and formed an opinion about the verdict, try searching the books and databases below for potential sources you can use for your paper. Try to find sources that provide evidence to support your opinion about the verdict (this is your thesis). If you need help, ask a librarian.

Recommended Websites

Famous Trials
This site was created by professor Douglas O. Linder at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
Justice 101 from Department of Justice
This website from the Department of Justice gives background information for students to learn more about the legal justice system.

Recommended Books

Great American Trials
Call Number: E-Book
Publication Date: 2003
E-book contains chapters on Lenny Bruce, Ted Bundy, Chicago Seven, Al Capone, Leo Frank, Bruno Hauptmann, Patty Hearst, Alger Hiss, Leopold and Loeb, Charles Manson, Sacco-Vanzetti, Scopes, Scottsboro, Sam Sheppard, Son of Sam, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, and Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
The print version of this book contains more trials, located at Giles REF KF220 .G74 1994 and Cherokee REF KF220.G74 1994.
Crimes and Trials of the Century by Steven Chermak (Editor); Frankie Y. Bailey (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780313341090
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
Also available in print at Giles Campus Ref. KF221 .P6 C75 2007
Includes Black Sox Trial (1921).
Trials of the Century by Scott P. Johnson
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781598842623
Publication Date: 2010-10-06
Also in print: Giles REF KF220 .J64 2011.
Includes Earp Trial (1881) and Black Sox Trial (1921).
Famous Trials in History by Elisabeth A. Cawthon
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780816081677
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Also in print: Giles REF K540 .C39 2012
Crimes of the Centuries by Steven Chermak (Editor); Frankie Y. Bailey (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1610695941
Publication Date: 2016-01-25
The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials by Roger Wilkes (Editor)
Call Number: Giles REF K540 .M36 2006
ISBN: 0786717254
Publication Date: 2006-03-27
The Encyclopedia of American Crime by Carl Sifakis
Call Number: Giles REF HV6789 .S54 2001
ISBN: 0816040400
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Also Available Online

Murder, Culture, and Injustice by Walter L. Hixson
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1884836674
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Also in print: Central Stacks HV6529 .59.2001
Includes Lizzie Borden, Lindbergh baby (Bruno Hauptmann), Sam Sheppard, and O. J. Simpson trials.
Witch Hunts: from Salem to Guantanamo Bay by Robert Rapley
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1282867652
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Contains chapters on the Salem Witch trial and Scottsboro Boys trial.
The Logic of Women on Trial by Janice E. Schuetz
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0585031444
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Includes trials of Lizzie Borden, Ethel Rosenberg, Patti Hearst, and others.
Did They Really Do It? by Fred Rosen
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1504024494
Publication Date: 2015-11-17
Chapters on Lizzie Borden, Bruno Hauptmann (Lindbergh baby), Leo Frank, and the Rosenbergs.
The Witch-Hunt Narrative by Ross E. Cheit
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780190465575
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Contains chapter on the McMartin Preschool Trial.
Ten Great American Trials by Glenn C. Altschuler; Faust F. Rossi
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1634255925
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Contains Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold & Loeb, Scottsboro, Alger Hiss, Sam Sheppard, Village of Skokie vs. National Socialist Party of America, Dan White, Claus von Bulow, McMartin Preschool, O.J. Simpson.
Also in print: Central Reference KF220 .A43 2016

The Salem Witch Trials by K. David Goss
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780313320958
Publication Date: 2007-12-30
A Delusion of Satan by Frances Hill
Call Number: Giles Stacks KFM2478.8 .W5 H55 1997
ISBN: 0306811596
Publication Date: 2002-05-30
Daily Life During the Salem Witch Trials by K. David Goss
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1283863545
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson W. Baker
Call Number: Giles & Cherokee Stacks KFM2478.8 .W5 B35 2015
ISBN: 9780199890347
Publication Date: 2014-10-06
Also Available Online
Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century by John E. Findling (Editor); Frank W. Thackeray (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1280869003
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Includes chapter on Salem Witch Trials
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Bryan F. Le Beau
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1315509040
Publication Date: 2016-05-23

Scottsboro and Its Legacy by James R. Acker
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780275990831
Publication Date: 2007-11-30
Race on Trial by Annette Gordon-Reed (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0195122798
Publication Date: 2002-09-05
Contains chapter on Scottsboro trial.
The Scottsboro Boys Trial: A Primary Source Account
Call Number: Giles Stacks KF224 .S34 S67 2004
ISBN: 0823939758

Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial by Jack DeSario; William D. Mason
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0873387708
Publication Date: 2003-07-01
American Legal Injustice: Behind the Scenes with an Expert Witness by Emanuel Tanay
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 128321380X
Publication Date: 2011-08-09
Contains chapter on Sam Sheppard trial.
The Wrong Man by James Neff
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781504006798
Publication Date: 2015-04-07

The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0828322031
Publication Date: 2010
Lizzie Borden and the Massachusetts Axe Murders by Ronald Bartle
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1909976431
Publication Date: 2017-05-15
Lizzie Borden on Trial by Joseph A. Conforti
Call Number: Giles Stacks KF223 .B6 C66 2015
ISBN: 9780700620715
Publication Date: 2015-06-08
The Crimes of Womanhood: Defining Femininity in a Court of Law by A. Carlson
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1283043963
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
See Chapter 5: Womanhood as Asset and Liability: Lizzie Andrew Borden
The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780553498080
Publication Date: 2016-01-12
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
Call Number: Giles Stacks KF223 .B6 R63 2019
ISBN: 1501168398
Publication Date: 2020-03-10

*** See also chapters on Lizzie Borden in three books under "More Trials" tab.***

The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein; William Greider (Introduction by)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0801487145
Publication Date: 2001-02-15
Look particularly at chapter, "Justice" for information on the trial.
Triangle : the fire that changed America by David von Drehle
Call Number: Giles Campus Stacks F128.5 .V946 2003
ISBN: 9780802141514
Publication Date: 2004-08-16
"On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories.
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the new South by Jeffrey Melnick
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1578062861
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Copy at Giles Campus
The Silent and the Damned: : the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank by Robert Seitz Frey; Nancy Thompson-Frey; John Seigenthaler (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780815411888
Publication Date: 2002-02-25
Copies at Giles and Cherokee Campuses
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1467749346
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
Copy at Giles Campus
Black Sox in the Courtroom by William F. Lamb
Call Number: Giles Stacks KF224 .C49 L36 2013
ISBN: 9780786472680
Publication Date: 2013-03-15
Evil Summer: : Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the kidnap-murder of Bobby Franks by John Theodore
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0809387492
Publication Date: 2007-10-04
For the Thrill of It: : Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked jazz age Chicago by Simon Baatz
Call Number: Giles Stacks HV6245 .B27 2009
ISBN: 9780060781026
Publication Date: 2009-04-28
In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti : double lives, troubled times, and the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world by Susan Tejada
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9781555537302
Publication Date: 2012-04-10
Copy at Giles Campus
Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial by Moshik Temkin
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1282352008
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Hauptmann's Ladder: a step-by-step analysis of the Lindbergh kidnapping by Richard T. Cahill
ISBN: 9781606351932
Publication Date: 2014-02-12
Available online and at Gile Campus (HV6603 .L5 C34 2014). Hauptmann's Ladder is a meticulously researched examination of the Lindbergh kidnapping that restores and preserves the truth of the crime of the century.
The Case That Never Dies : the Lindbergh kidnapping by Lloyd C. Gardner
ISBN: 9780813554112
Publication Date: 2012-06-20
Available online and at Giles Campus ( HV6603 .L5 G37 2012) Essential reading for anyone interested in the most famous American crime of the twentieth century.
Let the People See by Elliott J. Gorn
Call Number: Giles Stacks HV6465 .M7 G67 2018
ISBN: 019932512X
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
Minds on Trial by Charles Patrick Ewing; Joseph T. McCann
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 019518176X
Publication Date: 2006-03-16
Contains chapter on Patty Hearst.
Murder in Tombstone by Steven Lubet
Call Number: Giles Stacks F819 .T6 L83 2004
ISBN: 030010426X
Publication Date: 2004-09-10
The Trials of Lenny Bruce by Ronald K. L. Collin; David M. Skover; Nat Hentoff (Narrated by)
Call Number: Giles Stacks KF224 .B78 C65 2002
ISBN: 1570719861
Publication Date: 2002-09-01

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