Review 2

Week 2 readings

Be prepared to answer in-depth questions on all of the following. You may want to review the reading review rubric (on the Grading Rubrics section of our course menu).

In your textbook:

· Anonymous, “Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the Boy Fiend” (pp. 98-116)

· Murder Ballads (pp. 196-210). Click  here  for a performance of one of these ("Stack o Lee") by Mississippi John Hurt

· Faxon, James. From “The Record of Crimes in the United States” (pp. 52-62)

· Ambrose Bierce, “Crime News from California” (pp. 80-86)

· Twain, Mark. From Roughing It (pp. 87-97)

· Thaxter, Celia. “A Memorable Murder” (pp. 132-155)

Other readings:

· Browder, Laura. "True Crime  "

· Friedman, Lawrence. "Notes on the Nature of True Crime Trials."   NOTE: this article by a Stanford Law historian is quite long (though it is interesting!). You only need to read pp. 28-33 (Section C, printed pages 1270-1275), which deal specifically with the Borden case. 

· Lizzie Borden articles  This link contains the original texts of newspaper articles from the Borden case. Read two articles of your choosing from this link.

· The real Marie Roget:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edgar-allan-poe-tried-and-failed-to-crack-the-mysterious-murder-case-of-mary-rogers-7493607/  

· Optional:  Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Mystery of Marie Roget"