Britannica Online: Start here if you are working on a historical trials.  Britannica provides links to other Internet sites.  Click on Internet Links at the bottom or right side for more information.

Famous Trials: Links to historic American trials, profiles of famous trial lawyers and exploration of constitutional conflicts.

Other famous American trials: Links to sites concerning other American trials.

Court TV Online: Famous Cases-- This page has links to a number of recent trials.

FBI History:Famous Cases--These pages provide an overview of cases that the FBI has been involved in since 1908.

Death Penalty Information--Michigan State University has assembled materials to help students explore, debate, and discuss this controversial important topic involving federal and state laws and personal values.

Remember to use the periodical databases for current cases

Student Resource Center Bronze - Here you can find primary source documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

EBSCO Host - A database package containing more than 6,000 full-text periodicals. For this project choose the Secondary Search option and check the first four databases to do your search. You may also want to limit your search to full text.

HW Wilson Current Biography Illustrated--This is only for people who are still living or were born after World War II.  You will need to put in a Username and password.  Check the bookmark next to the network printer.

American National Biography--This database is only for people who have died.

When you get ready to look for pictures try AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive.   This is a good source for pictures for your PowerPoint. If you are typing in a phrase or name enclose it in single quotes. You do not need to put in a where and when just the what.