The great trials of world history and the lessons they teach us
By: Professor Douglas O. Linder
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. History. Modern history; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781629974910
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Trials; Modern History
Description: Examines trials throughout history that don't simply end with their verdict. Many have shaped and transformed the very social, political, and legal traditions we take for granted today. It's trials like these that are deserving of the description "great."
Notes: Course no. 3767.

The length of each lecture is : ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Lecturer: Professor Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC.
Table of contents: title: The trial of Socrates; title: The trial of Gaius Verres; title: Three medieval trials; title: The trial of Sir Thomas More; title: The trial of Giordano Bruno; title: The Salem Witchcraft trials; title: The Boston Massacre trials; title: The Aaron Burr conspiracy trial; title: The Amistad trials; title: The Dakota Conflict Trials; title: The Lincoln assassination conspiracy trial; title: The trial of Louis Riel; title: The three trials of Oscar Wilde; title: The trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp; title: The Leopold and Loeb trial; title: The Scopes Monkey trial; title: The trials of the "Scottsboro Boys"; title: The Nuremberg trials; title: The Alger Hiss trial; title: The Rivonia (Nelson Mandela) trial; title: The Mississippi trial; title: The trial of the Chicago eight; title: The McMartin Preschool abuse trial; title: The O.J. Simpson trial.