Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Murder in the First Degree the Death of Mr. Spud
Students model the process of cooling and use a cooling curve to simulate a forensic scenario to predict the time of death. They use technology to find an exponential plot.
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Assignment: Murder! Adolf Eichmann
This site provides a biography of the former Nazi leader, Adolf Eichmann.
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Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "The Mousetrap" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
"The Mousetrap" 21-page teacher guide includes excellent activities for exploring murder mysteries. Also included are synopsis, activities, and discussion topics for this play as well as "Ten Little Indians," "Appointment with Death,"...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: North Korean Military Adventurism
This collection of documents provides a historical record of North Korea's brinkmanship and military-diplomatic campaigns since 1968, including the seizure of the USS Pueblo, attempted assassinations of President Park Chung Hee, and the...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Mark Twain, a Special Report
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, a daily news broadcast on PBS, offers a special report on Mark Twain and his missing manuscript, "A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage." A timeline of Mark Twain's life is also provided.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Background: The Canterbury Tales
This page provides the background for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a series of 22 short stories from 29 pilgrims traveling from Canterbury to Kent. It begins with a prologue that sets up the frame story and introduces the characters....
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The Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Richmond, Virginia's Edgar Allan Poe Museum provides links to pages containing biographical information about Poe and the text of some of his works. The works include "The Masque of the Red Death," The Cask of Amontillado," "Tell-Tale...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases by Ida b.wells
This is an excerpt comes from "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" by Ida B.Wells. In it she talks about lynching, or the murder by mob for an alleged crime without a legal trial. The targets of such violence and hatred were...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Murders in the Rue Morgue
This fascinating story published in 1845 is one of the first detective stories written. Read about the major characters and themes in this intriguing site.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Murder of Thomas Becket
The Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170.
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Anarchist Murderers or American Martyrs?: Nicola Sacco
A brief biography of Nicola Sacco's life before his fateful arrest, perhaps wrongly, for murder in 1920.
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Naacp History: Medgar Evers
A good biography of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered for his attempts to integrate institutions in Jackson, Mississippi.
TES Global
Tes: Year 9, Set 5: Lamb to the Slaughter
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this lesson, students will work to collect clues to solve a murder mystery. Students will use a Power Point first and then apply the skills to a short text.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
Spurred by ambition and spiritual prophecy, Macbeth, and his wife Lady Macbeth, come up with a scheme to murder King Duncan and take his throne. Their actions force them to commit more murders and eventually leads to their downfall....
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: West Memphis Three Trials (1994)
On a warm sunny May day three eight-year-old boys set off on a bike ride around their hometown of West Memphis, Arkansas. The next afternoon, their bruised and mutilated hog-tied naked bodies were pulled from a stream, setting off an...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Repression and Terror Stalin in Control
A nice Ibiblio.org site which details the political terror of Joseph Stalin's reign from 1927-1939. It also gives details on the murder of Sergei Kirov.
The History Place
The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Tales
An introductory discussion of the publishing history of Poe's short stories, along with links to numerous text versions of the stories themselves, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which can be read online.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Blind Spot" by H. H. Munro
This is the text of the short story "The Blind Spot" by H. H. Munro, a murder mystery.
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A Short Summary of Criminal Procedures
This site explains the legal actions taken against the Chilean Military under rule of General Pinochet and the Argentinian Military for kidnapping, torture, murder, and genocide. There are also links to actual information on the cases.
Franco Cavazzi
The Roman Empire: Gaius Julius Caesar
This site from the Roman Empire provides a general biography of Julius Caesar. Content includes Caesar's early life, his capture by pirates, his return to Rome, his military trip to Spain, the "First Triumvirate," his governorship of...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: 'Memory Wound' Will Cut Through Site of Massacre
Article reports on the design that has been selected for the memorial at the site of Norway's 2011 mass murder. Includes images of the proposed memorial.
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Act 2 Scene 2: Interactive Csi Lesson Plan
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an interactive Macbeth lesson based on investigating quotations to find out if Lady Macbeth should also be charged with Duncan's murder. The video is included on Prezi....
US National Archives
Docsteach: A Call to Action: Responses to Civil Rights Violations
In this activity, learners will be introduced to the civil right activities of Harry T. Moore, former schoolteacher and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) official in Florida in the 1940s, and analyze the...
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