November 13, 1998
Historians as Detectives: Revealing Society's Fault Lines
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Trial documents and news accounts of notorious slayings give scholars a way to study American ideas of evil Long the stuff of cheap paperbacks and scary movies, tales of murder have lately captivated scholarly historians, who find in true stories of crime and punishment a way to detect the shifts in social and moral values in a rapidly modernizing America. |
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