Really Cold Cases: Exploring America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.01) (cancelled 9/18/2023
Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and other tools, we will explore America’s most notorious unsolved cases from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. Focusing on specific cases will illuminate larger contexts, including changing understandings of “criminality,” modern policing methods, incarceration policies, the development of forensic science,