Trials and Courts
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The Trial of Billy the Kid (Mesilla Valley History Series, #7)
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David G. Thomas
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Freedom on Trial: The First Post-Civil War Battle Over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
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Scott Farris
4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five
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Martin Garbus
3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight
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Jon Wiener
4.09 avg rating — 276 ratings 
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
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Brenda Wineapple
4.06 avg rating — 1,699 ratings 
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The Great Defender: The Life and Trials of Edward Marshall Hall KC, England's Greatest Barrister 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials 3.60 avg rating — 939 ratings
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The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary
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Joan Hoff
3.49 avg rating — 145 ratings 
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
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Scott W. Stern
3.79 avg rating — 377 ratings 21. 
Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain
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Thomas Grant
4.06 avg rating — 707 ratings 
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Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks
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Thomas Grant
4.12 avg rating — 589 ratings 23. 
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
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Lynne Viola
4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings 25. 
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
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Wendy Joseph
4.42 avg rating — 2,693 ratings 25. 
Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
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Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings 29. 
The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850
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Allyson N. May
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 29. 
The Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall
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Jeff Biggers
3.61 avg rating — 61 ratings 31. 
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Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
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Benjamin Rachlin
4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings 
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The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
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Lawrence Douglas
3.79 avg rating — 146 ratings 
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Sodomy Trials: Seven Documents (Marriage, sex, and the family in England, 1660-1800)
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Anonymous
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 37. 
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials 3.43 avg rating — 2,158 ratings
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Trials for Adultery: or, the History of Divorces, 7 volumes (Marriage, sex, and the family in England, 1660-1800)
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Anonymous
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 39. 
Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness
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Lisa Appignanesi
3.31 avg rating — 144 ratings 41. 
Disorderly Conduct: Verbatim Excerpts from Actual Cases
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Rodney R. Jones
3.58 avg rating — 71 ratings 41. 
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
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Susan E. Goodman
4.30 avg rating — 582 ratings 43. 
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.62 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature 4.08 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds
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Darren Oldridge
3.90 avg rating — 258 ratings 45. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 47. 
The Trial of Jan Hus: Medieval Heresy and Criminal Procedure
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Thomas A. Fudge
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 47. 
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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Emerson W. Baker
3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings 49. 
The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series, Series Number 16)
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S.H. Cuttler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
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Richard Kluger
3.41 avg rating — 111 ratings 53. 
Marriage on Trial: Late Medieval German Couples at the Papal Court (Studies in medieval and early modern canon law, Vol. 10)
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Ludwig Schmugge
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England
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John G. Bellamy
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 55. 
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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Edward J. Larson
3.89 avg rating — 2,354 ratings 57. 
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A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
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Errol Morris
3.64 avg rating — 1,668 ratings 
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Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption 3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements
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William Monter
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Norwich Heresy Trials, 1428-1431 (Camden Fourth Series, #20)
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Norman P. Tanner
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 63. 
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
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Frances Hill
3.73 avg rating — 1,619 ratings 65. 
Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670
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Genelle Gertz
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 65. 
Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
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David O. Stewart
4.02 avg rating — 3,719 ratings 67. 
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The Trials of Israel Lipski: A True Story of a Victorian Murder in the East End of London 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven 3.53 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
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Bill Shaffer
3.60 avg rating — 1,717 ratings 
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The Innocent Master Harrison (True Crime 1692): Including the Trial of Henry Harrison at The Old Bailey 1692 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Darrow's Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer (Los Angeles 1911–1913)
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Nelson Johnson
4.33 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath
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Kevin Sullivan
4.13 avg rating — 102 ratings 81. 
The King's Trial: Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution
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David P. Jordan
3.85 avg rating — 94 ratings 81. 
A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation 3.73 avg rating — 110 ratings
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A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein
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John Laughland
4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings 83. 
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Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration
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Ronnie Greene
4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings 87. 
Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI
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Michael Walzer
3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings 87. 
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
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Sarah Weinman
3.55 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 89. 
Summoned to the Roman Courts: Famous Trials from Antiquity
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Detlef Liebs
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 89. 
Together: An Inspiring Response to the “Separate-But-Equal” Supreme Court Decision that Divided America
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Amy Nathan
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
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Carol S. Steiker
3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings 93. 
The Sacco and Vanzetti Case: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial
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Richard J. Evans
4.12 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 95. 
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
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Thom Hartmann
4.24 avg rating — 281 ratings 
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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Charles Lane
4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings 
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
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Dan Abrams
3.72 avg rating — 1,066 ratings