death and burial

Chronicles the nineteen-year-old Prince of Wales' vengeance against the men who beheaded his father, Charles I, in seventeenth century England.

Presents the diary of Barbara A. Wilson for the year following the death of her daughter, Sarah, who died while whitewater rafting.

"The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people--Northerners and Southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor"--Dust jacket flap.

In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess. But it wasn't her crime which shocked the nation, it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass for a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fianc?e, Freda Ward. When their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden to ever speak again. Freda adjusted to this with an ease that stunned the heartbroken Alice. Alice's subsequent letters went unanswered and on January 25, 1892, Alice publicly slashed Freda's throat. Alice spent months in jail and a jury eventually declared her insane and she was placed in an asylum where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.

A study of events surrounding the trial and death of ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, discussing the validity of the charges against him, and examining events that contributed to his sentence.

The author traces the life of William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, and provides documentation that the outlaw was not killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, but escaped and lived as William Henry Roberts until his death in 1950 at age ninety-one.

Chronicles the stormy collaboration between astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler at the turn of the seventeenth century, discussing how their discoveries would mark the transition from medieval to modern science and why Kepler is believed to have killed Brahe in order to take credit for Brahe's discoveries.

Uses historical documents to attempt to solve the mysterious death of Lord Darnley, whose murder led to Mary, Queen of Scots, ruin and has baffled historians for centuries.