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The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in North American legal history. Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of a fatal armed robbery that took place in Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920. Despite several appeals, the two men did not receive a fair trial and were executed in Boston on August 23, 1927. The Sacco-Vanzetti case has continued relevance today as an example of ethnic and political intolerance.
The IU Bloomington Libraries offer access to several important collections of digitized primary sources relevant to Sacco and Vanzetti. These include Gale’s Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, which provides access to court transcripts and other official documents emanating from the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, as well as letters written by the two men from prison. ProQuest’s History Vault includes a collection of case papers pertaining chiefly to the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, together with papers of Justice Felix Frankfurter relating to the men's trial.
Collection of primary source materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice. Includes manuscripts, books, broadsheets, and periodicals.
Covers a number of geographic areas, including Europe, North America, India, and the Antipodes and includes material in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
Archival collections documenting topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history. Provides access to digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.
Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.
Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers.
Includes access to newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, and Panama.