Nile Kinnick and William Stuart were appointed attorneys for the appellant in a law school mock trial. They presented a biref & argument, and, an appellant's reply.
Concerning his writing eight articles for the Examiner; urges her not to harp on other persons, evidently Mrs. Shelley included; requests her to tell Mrs. Shelley to give up the useless task of disposing of his Bacco, i.e. his edition of Redi's...
Suzanne Lebsock reads from her work, Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. Lebsock, who considers herself a social historian, details the 1895 ax murder of a white woman in Lunenberg, Virginia. Lebsock explains that three black women and...
In a special event sponsored by The University of Iowa Alumni Association, Laura Caldwell reads from and discuss her nonfiction book, Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him. The nonfiction book chronicles...
Excerpted is Helen Focht's account of a trial integration of University of Iowa's Currier Hall in the summer of 1954 and her recollections of Betty (Arnett) Ward, the African American student involved in the integration.
An account of the actions, arrest, trial and imprisonment of Dr. Mudd surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, reprinted from the Reader's digest.
Seated on left, Doctor Willis A. (Bill) Fowler, Head of the Department of Medicine, 1946-1948 ; seated, center, Doctor Wilbur R. Miller, Head of Psychiatry, 1941-1955 ; seated on right, Doctor Emory Warner, Head of Pathology, 1945-1947 ; standing...
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Patricia Bryan is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of Stories in Fiction and in Fact: Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" and the 1901 Murder Trial of Margaret Hossack. Thomas Wolf received his MFA in...
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), born in Davenport, Iowa, was one of the preeminent American writers of the early twentieth century. She wrote fourteen groundbreaking plays, nine novels, and some fifty short stories, producing a body of work that was...