University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Comprehensive site that provides the trial transcript and summary of evidence, as well as a chronology, biographies of trial participants, and information of the Red Scare.
The Atlantic Monthly Group
The Atlantic: The Never Ending Wrong
The famous author, Katherine Anne Porter, wrote an article in the July, 1977, The Atlantic magazine, recounting her memory of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial fifty years before, and commenting on the view of Anarchism and Communism in the...
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Digital Collections: Sacco Vanzetti
Primary source documents and texts related to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were admitted anarchists who were tried and convicted of killing two men during an armed robbery. The materials include court...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Resources: Sacco and Vanzetti
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, charged and convicted of murder. See why this case was a divisive one and read the broadside, published by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, which raised...
Digital History
Digital History: Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti were caught up in anti-immigrant, Red Scare feelings in the 1920s. Read about their arrest and controversial trial filled with prejudice and errors.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Sentencing Statements of Sacco and Vanzetti
The actual statements given by Sacco and Vanzetti at their sentencing provides background behind the their trials and the Ben Shahn mural.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Sacco Vanzetti Case
Presents a thorough examination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Read about the charges against the men, the trial, and the long-standing controversy surrounding the verdict.
The Atlantic Monthly Group
The Atlantic: Vanzetti's Last Statement: A Record by w.g. Thompson
From the February 1928, edition of The Atlantic magazine, the attorney for Bartolmeo Vanzetti recounts the last detailed conversation he had with his client on the day he and Sacco were executed.
Other
Culture Wars of the 1920s: Sacco Vanzetti Case
A brief look at the literature, interviews, and art that are reflective of the conflicted opinions of the validity of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Included are links to some of the literature, and discussion questions are suggested.
Other
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.
Ohio State University
E History: Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s: Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Overview of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, with a link to Felix Frankfurter's book on the subject, published in 1927, which concludes that the conviction was the result of the anti-immigration fury of the time.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Sacco and Vanzetti
Comprehensive summary features detailed facts and information on the Sacco and Vanzetti case.