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This guide provides sources for your Famous Trials Research project and shows you how to get help with a librarian.

Ebooks

Trials of the Century
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This comprehensive set of essays documents the most important criminal, civil, and political trials in the United States from colonial times to the present.
Great American Court Cases, Gale
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This resource, while focusing primarily on Supreme Court cases, also includes major federal or state cases that set precedents.
Tough Cases
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In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide.
100 Most Infamous Criminals
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This comprehensive set of essays documents the most important criminal, civil, and political trials in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their impact on both legal history and popular culture.
Dateline Purgatory
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In Dateline Purgatory, award-winning journalist Kathy Cruz enlists current-day legal experts to weigh in on the shocking transgressions that resulted in one of the country's most controversial death penalty convictions.

Interview with attorney and author Bryan Stevenson about his book, "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,"on Detroit Public Television.

MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for nearly 1,750 publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. Provided by EBSCOhost.
New York Times: NYTimes.com
NYTimes.com covers a variety of topics with unsurpassed quality and depth through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. Create Account | LogIn | Help & FAQs
Issues & Controversies
Provides more than 900 timely, in-depth, and objective articles, exploring controversial issues and topics. Provided by FactsOnFile.
Biography In Context
Includes reference content, periodicals and multimedia allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
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Films On Demand
The collection includes over 30,000 films including Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody award-winning documentaries from more than 800 international producers of the most relevant videos to suit every subject.
Kanopy Streaming Videos
Kanopy provides over 14,000 streaming videos including award winning documentaries and classic films that support all subjects. To view Kanopy videos, you will need to create an account on the Kanopy site, but will then have unlimited access to the collection.

Crimemuseum.org
Web site of the Crime Museum in Washington DC with information about famous trials from a wide range of cases.
Landmarkcases.org
Site funded by the Supreme Court Historical Society to provide educational resources about landmark Supreme Court cases.
APNews.com/trials
Latest coverage of trials in the news from the Associated Press

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