"Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. They regard Roman commoners as a parasitic mob, a rabble interested only in bread and circuses. They cast Caesar, who took up the popular cause, as a despot an…
"Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. They regard Roman commoners as a parasitic mob, a rabble interested only in bread and circuses. They cast Caesar, who took up the popular cause, as a despot an…
On solving history's greatest murder mystery.
Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the …
"Fall River Outrage" is an account of one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in the early nineteenth-century America. In 1832, Sarah Cornell, a pregnant mill worker, was found hung in the stock yeard of a Rhode Island farm. The investigation that followed i…
On April 9, 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, then a popular political leader likely to become the next president of Colombia, was shot and killed by a drifter whose motivations remain obscure. Gaitán's death touched off a spontaneous riot, known as the Bogotazo, and left hundreds dea…
On the evening of 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers - wh…
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, m…
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of changed in 1994, and more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in over a dozen trials. Yet, as Renee C. Romano shows, addressing th…
"The Swedish prime minister Olaf Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February, 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspic…
"The Swedish prime minister Olaf Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February, 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspic…