This course is a thematic study of the history of crime and its policing and prosecution in the United States from the 1870s to the 1920s. You will use newspapers in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America collection to explore the incidence, definition, and policing of offenses such as murder, ...
This course is a thematic study of the history of crime and its policing and prosecution in the United States from the 1870s to the 1920s. You will use newspapers in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America collection to explore the incidence, definition, and policing of offenses such as murder, ...
Amanda Madden is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Geospatial History at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). Her resarch areas include digital spatial history, digital humanities, early modern Italy, the history of crime and violence, the history of women and ge...
Benjamin M. Schneider received his PhD from George Mason University in 2019. He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester, and an M.A. from The George Washington University. His dissertation No Law Except the Sword: American War Criminals and the Failure of Military Justice, 1942-1945, exam...
Stephen Robertson is a cultural and social historian of the twentieth-century United States. Since 2003, digital history has occupied a central place in his research. In 2024 he published Harlem in Disorder, a spatial analysis of a racial disorder in 1935 in the form of a digital monograph. The multi...
