While the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records might not contain your grandfather’s Pinkerton’s employment history, the collection offers information about the Pinkertons who ran the family’s agency and some of the more interesting criminals they investigated.
Join the Manuscript Division for a discussion of 1920s America with Nathan Masters at noon, August 23, as he discusses his new book: Crooked: The Roaring Twenties Tales of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal.
This March marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed indigent defendants the right to counsel, but as seen through the Anthony Lewis Papers and his influential book, Gideon’s Trumpet, the results have been mixed at best.