A Walk in Barnstable Village: Law and Crime
A Walk in Barnstable Village: Law and Crime is a modest stroll through a few blocks of this bucolic village, and through centuries of its brushes with the darker side of human endeavor. Some of it, real dark.
Before Salem: “Witches” in Massachusetts
WITCHES: they're not just for October anymore. There was Salem in 1692-93, of course, but there was plenty of witch-hunting in Massachusetts before then. . . .
Miller at the Movies: The Oscars and Beyond
Join Tim Miller and me as I question him about the Oscars, movies. . . and life.
Dracula: Into the Light
Dracula. . . not the movies, but the original novel, and its literary antecedents.
Sacco and Vanzetti: Murderers or Martyrs?
Convicted: Of murder? Or of being Italian anarchists?
Them Bones. . . Again: Facing Death in Munich and Vienna. . . and Along the Danube
There is plenty to see and do in Munich and Vienna. . . and then there are other things to see and do.
A Walk in Barnstable Village: Law and Crime
A Walk in Barnstable Village: Law and Crime is a modest stroll through a few blocks of this bucolic village, and through centuries of its brushes with the darker side of human endeavor. Some of it, real dark.
A Walk in Barnstable Village: Law and Crime
A Walk in Barnstable Village: Law and Crime is a modest stroll through a few blocks of this bucolic village, and through centuries of its brushes with the darker side of human endeavor. Some of it, real dark.
Them Bones: Facing Death in Paris and Rome
There are Paris and Rome, and then there are catacombs, cemeteries, death rooms, historic murder locations, and. . . unusually decorated crypts.
Slavery and Segregation in Antebellum Massachusetts: The Law of Shaw
Slavery and segregation in Massachusetts case by case.
Hanged Beneath the Flag: The Somers “Mutiny”
Hanged Beneath the Flag: The Somers “Mutiny”
Were the alarming events on board U.S.S. Somers in 1842 actually the only “mutiny” in the U.S. Navy? Was the harsh punishment levied upon three suspected plotters--one the troublesome son of a Cabinet member--warranted? The incident inspired Melville works, the creation of the Naval Academy, and public responses by such as James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Sumner, and. . . William Sturgis.
Seducer of Souls: Sandwich’s Bathsheba Spooner and the First U.S. Death Penalty Case
Seducer of Souls: Sandwich’s Bathsheba Spooner and the First U.S. Death Penalty Case
The daughter of one of Massachusetts’s most notorious Tories during the Revolutionary War period, Bathsheba Spooner sought her own peace accord between two British soldiers and her teenaged patriot-Army lover. . . an agreement to murder her husband. . . .