Website Spotlight: Alger Hiss Trial

Website URL: Alger Hiss Trials

I recommend you begin your enjoyment of this website by reading Douglas Linder's overview essay. [middle of the home screen, underneath the picture]

Each of the websites in this "Famous Trials" series has standard sections on the left sidebar labelled (more or less) as follows:

A. Chronology
B. Biographies/Key Figures
C. Selected Images
D. Excerpts from trial transcripts/Summary of evidence
E. Bibliography and Links

Follow your interests in deciding what parts of this main material to use.

Going beyond these normal categories, I myself found the following items (on the left sidebar) particularly intriguing:

Selected video clips:

Nixon: Answer for Trisha (his daughter)
Pumpkin Papers (don't miss this one)
Nixon Tapes relating to the Hiss case


On my Learning Professor wiki, this website fits within the following U.S.History survey course module:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Cold+War

For reviews of the Famous Trials site itself, see the following:

1. History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4908/

2. TeachingHistory.org (National History Education Clearinghouse)
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/14636

See also:
The Alger Hiss Story
https://files.nyu.edu/th15/public/home.html