Famous American Trials

1 Unit · Undergraduate

Course explores several famous American trials to examine key themes in American political, legal, social, economic, and cultural history. We will focus largely on the twentieth century?a period of multiple ?Trials of the Century? ?to see how each trial crystallized broader political and social tensions over ethnicity, gender, race, religion, politics, sexuality, and social status. LEGAL_ST 221-0 and HISTORY 221-0 are taught together; may not receive credit for both.