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Trials That Shaped Us

Judge Stephen Sfekas
Nuremberg Trials
Salem Witch Trials
Andrew Johnson
Slavery
Thomas Jefferson
Crimes Against Humanity
Galileo Galilei
Dred Scott
Ku Klux Klan
South Carolina
Star-Spangled Banner
Great European Witch Hunt
Nuremberg Trials and Nazi Germany Legal System
Allied Control Commission
Reconstruction
Manumission
Freedom Suits
Alexander Hamilton
Salem Village
Sedition Act

Created and hosted by Maryland Judge Stephen Sfekas, Trials That Shaped Us examines the courtroom moments that defined justice through the centuries. From the Salem Witch Trials to Brown v. Board of Education and the Nuremberg proceedings, Judge Sfekas brings decades of legal insight to the stories behind the world’s most consequential trials — exploring how they reshaped law, society, and human r... more

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After the Butler Act became law, the question was whether anyone in Tennessee would actually enforce it — and whether anyone would be willing to test it.

In Part 4 of Religion in the Courts: Galileo, Scopes and Dover, Judge Stephen J. Sfekas turns t... more

In Part 3 of Religion in the Courts: Galileo, Scopes and Dover, Judge Stephen J. Sfekas turns from Galileo to the origins of the Scopes case. The episode begins with Genesis and the creation of mankind, then traces the rise of Charles Darwin’s theory... more

After centuries of debate over Earth’s place in the cosmos, Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope at the night sky — and saw a universe that no longer fit the old order.

In Part 2 of Religion in the Courts: Galileo, Scopes and Dover, Judge Stephen J. ... more

Before Galileo pointed his telescope at the night sky, the universe already had an order.

In Part 1 of Religion in the Courts: Galileo, Scopes and Dover, Judge Stephen J. Sfekas begins with the ancient and medieval ideas that shaped how educated Eur... more

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