Bathsheba Spooner
Author: Samuel Swett Green
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 20
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Bathsheba Spooner
Author: Andrew Noone
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-26
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780578835426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBathsheba Spooner, daughter of infamous Massachusetts Loyalist Timothy Ruggles, conspired with two British POWs and her teenage American soldier/lover to kill her Patriot husband. All four were hanged in Worcester July 2, 1778. Spooner, five months pregnant, was the first woman executed in the new nation.
American Criminal Trials: Bathsheba Spooner and others. Colonel Henley. Major André. Joshua H. Smith. The Rhode Island judges. John Hauer and others. Appendix: Trial of Mrs. Spooner and others. Major André. Notes
Author: Peleg Whitman Chandler
Publisher:
Published: 1844
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBathsheba Spooner and others. Colonel Henley. Major André. Joshua H. Smith. The Rhode Island judges. John Hauer and others. Appendix: Trial of Mrs. Spooner and others. Major André. Notes
Author: Peleg Whitman Chandler
Publisher:
Published: 1844
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMurdered by His Wife
Author: Deborah Navas
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001-09-29
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781558493346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiction writer and independent scholar Navas reconstructs a little-remembered incident during the US war for independence. Bathsheba took in and nursed a 16-year-old Continental soldier returning from a year under Washington, and became pregnant by him. Because divorce was nearly impossible and adulteresses were publicly stripped and whipped, she, with help from the boy and others, beat hubby to death and stuffed him in a well. It did not help her case that her father was the state's most prominent and despised Loyalist. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Crimes of the Centuries [3 volumes] [3 volumes]
Author: Steven Chermak Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-01-25
Total Pages: 1837
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multivolume resource is the most extensive reference of its kind, offering a comprehensive summary of the misdeeds, perpetrators, and victims involved in the most memorable crime events in American history. This unique reference features the most famous crimes and trials in the United States since colonial times. Three comprehensive volumes focus on the most notorious and historically significant crimes that have influenced America's justice system, including the life and wrongdoing of Lizzie Borden, the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the killing spree and execution of Ted Bundy, and the Columbine High School shootings. Organized by case, the work includes a chronology of major unlawful deeds, fascinating primary source documents, dozens of sidebars with case trivia and little-known facts, and an overview of crimes that have shaped criminal justice in the United States over several centuries. Each of the 500 entries provides information about the crime, the perpetrators, and those affected by the misconduct, along with a short bibliography to extend learning opportunities. The set addresses a breadth of famous trials across American history, including the Salem witch trials, the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the prosecution of O. J. Simpson.
Women and Capital Punishment in the United States
Author: David V. Baker
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0786499508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. The book includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in potentially capital cases and a profile of the current female death row population.
Women in Early America
Author: Dorothy Auchter Mays
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1851094342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the challenges of daily life in the colonies. Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World provides insight into an era in American history when women had immense responsibilities and unusual freedoms. These women worked in a range of occupations such as tavernkeeping, printing, spiritual leadership, trading, and shopkeeping. Pipe smoking, beer drinking, and premarital sex were widespread. One of every eight people traveling with the British Army during the American Revolution was a woman. The coverage begins with the 1607 settlement at Jamestown and ends with the War of 1812. In addition to the role of Anglo-American women, the experiences of African, French, Dutch, and Native American women are discussed. The issues discussed include how women coped with rural isolation, why they were prone to superstitions, who was likely to give birth out of wedlock, and how they raised large families while coping with immense household responsibilities.
Women's Rights in the United States [4 volumes]
Author: Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-12-09
Total Pages: 2571
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive encyclopedia tracing the history of the women's rights movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the present day. Few realize that the origin of the discussion on women's rights emerged out of the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century, and that suffragists were active in the peace and labor movements long after the right to vote was granted. Thus began the confluence of activism in our country, where the rights of women both followed—and led—the social and political discourse in America. Through 4 volumes and more than 800 entries, editor Tiffany K. Wayne, with advising editor Lois Banner, examine the issues, people, and events of women's activism, from the early period of American history to the present time. This comprehensive reference not only traces the historical evolution of the movement, but also covers current issues affecting women, such as reproductive freedom, political participation, pay equity, violence against women, and gay civil rights.
Women Criminals [2 volumes]
Author: Vickie Jensen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 0313068267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique, two-volume study that examines female crime and the women who commit it. The two-volume Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues addresses both key topics and key figures in women's crime. The first volume provides topical essays about areas critical to the understanding of female criminals, such as the definition of women's crime, explanations of women's criminality, ethnic and age diversity in female criminals, and responses of the criminal justice system. The second volume comprises biographical entries profiling women who are obviously criminals, such as Aileen Wuornos and Myra Hindley, and also women who were victims of circumstance, unjust laws, or narrowly applied definitions of crime, such as Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sophie Scholl. In addition to highlighting the breadth of women's criminality, these portraits provide a holistic, multifaceted understanding of the dynamics of women's crime and why it occurs, connecting the individual stories to the larger social-scientific perspectives. Care has been taken to include the women's own voices and perspectives where possible and to address the intentions and reasoning of the system that responded to their criminality.
