Winter Semester 2007
Syllabus
Professor Doug Linder
Classroom video
presentations
are indicated in brackets.
[This syllabus is tentative. Trials that might be included in
place of those listed include the Amistad trials (1839-40),
the Mountain Meadows Massacre trials (1875-76), the Wyatt Earp (O.K.
Corral) trial (1881), and the Oscar Wilde trial
(1895).]
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DESCRIBING GRADING AND CLASS ASSIGNMENT
SESSION 1
TWO TRIALS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
Part 1: THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES (399 B.C.)
D.
Linder, The Trial of Socrates Website; [Video: The Greeks]
Part 2: THE TRIAL OF JESUS (30 A.D.)
D.
Linder, The Trial of Jesus Website; [Video: Jesus]
SESSION 2
THE TRIAL OF SIR THOMAS MORE (1535)
D. Linder, The Trial of Sir Thomas More Website; [Video: A Man for All Seasons (1966)].
SESSION 3
THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS (1691)
D. Linder, Salem Witchcraft Trials Website; [Video: History Channel, Salem Witchcraft Trials (1998); PBS, Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1986)]
SESSION 4
Part 1: THE BOSTON MASSACRE TRIALS (1770)
D. Linder, Boston Massacre Trials Website, ; [Video: Discovery Channel, Unsolved History: The Boston Massacre (2003)].
Part 2: THE JOHN BROWN TRIAL (1859)
D. Linder, The Trial of John Brown Website; [Video: American Experience, John Brown's Holy War (2000)]
SESSION 5
THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY TRIAL (1865)
D. Linder, Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Website; [Video: History Channel, The Lincoln Assassination (1995)]
SESSION 6
Part 1: THE AMISTAD TRIALS (1839-40)
D.
Linder, The Amistad Trial ; [Video: Spielberg's Amistad (1997)]
Part 2: THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE TRIAL (1875-76)
D.
Linder, The Mountain Meadows Massacre Trials ; [Video: The History
Channel, The Mormon Rebellion
(1997)]
SESSION 7
Part 1: TRIAL OF WYATT EARP (1881)