FEDERAL JUDICIAL HISTORY
The Federal Judicial History Office continued work on its project to develop curriculum units on fifteen famous federal trials to help educators teach about the history of the federal courts. The on-line presentation of the case units will offer guidelines to teachers for incorporating the materials in history courses and will provide judges with support materials for using the program in public outreach activities. This project is a partnership with the ABA’s Division for Public Education and uses FJC Foundation funds.

The updated and expanded History of the Federal Judiciary Web site now includes a bibliography of scholarly works about judges, a directory of oral histories with judges, and descriptions of recent scholarship about the history of the federal judiciary, as well as the site’s biographical and other features. Users will also be able to download high-resolution copies of images in digital form of more than 600 historic federal courthouses. The images are from the collections of the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

A Center-produced video on oral history programs in the federal courts will feature excerpts from oral histories with federal judges and interviews with people who conduct oral history programs for federal courts. Broadcast on the FJTN is scheduled for May 2004.