A chronicle of the author's five-year legal battle with writer David Irving, a prolific supporter of Holocaust denial, describes how the author and a team of experts defended against Irving's libel suit while exposing his distortions of history.
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Discusses the trial in 1855 of eighteen-year-old slave Celia for the murder of her sexually abusive master Robert Newsom in Missouri.
This play is based on the trial transcript and court records from The State of Missouri vs. Celia, a Slave #4496, Callaway County Court, Fulton Township, Missouri, 1855; the trial of eighteen-year-old slave, Celia, for the murder of her sexually abusive master Robert Newsom. The…
"From January to April 2000, a high-profile libel case brought by the British historian David Irving against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, charging that Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust (1993) falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier, was tried in the British High Court…
What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In Sing the Rage, Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through a careful look at the emotiona…
Sexual violence in general, and rape in particular, is under-reported in India. The social stigma associated with rape is the biggest hurdle that a rape survivor faces right from the time of reporting the matter to the police to the stage of trial. This book, one of the first et…
"This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial because it threatened to under…
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Engel: David Engel ist Greenberg Professor für Holocaust Studies, Lehrstuhlinhaber der Hebrew and Judaic Studies sowie Professor für Geschichte an der New York University; zudem ist er Senior Fellow am Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center de…
