Great Trials in American History: Civil War to the Present

• NCJ Number: 159062
• Author(s): L Arbetman; R L Roe
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 228 pages
• Sale Source: West Publishing Co
• Publication Type: Training (Handbook/Manual)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Students and teachers who use this textbook should develop a greater appreciation of significant criminal trials in U.S. history and a greater awareness of positive aspects of the law.

Abstract

The textbook emphasizes the impact of law on history, the role of individual values in history, and the significance of courts in protecting constitutional rights and civil liberties. The authors cover issues of equality, justice, and federalism and ways of improving the criminal justice system. Fifteen trials are detailed: Major General Lambdin Milligan (1866), Cadet Johnson Whittaker (1880), John Scopes (1923), General Billy Mitchell (1925), Scottsboro Nine (1933), Fred Korematsu (1944), Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1951), Linda Brown (1954), Dollree Mapp (1961), Clarence Earl Gideon (1963), Danny Escobedo and Ernesto Miranda (1964 and 1966), Gerald Gault (1967), Chicago Eight (1968), Lieutenant William Calley (1970), and Allan Bakke (1978). Photographs