'Scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history'. New books discussion may be of interest to those researching famous trials.

Digital project of Missouri Archives, Washington University and Washington University Libraries. '[T]he collection is now a full-text, searchable resource that represents the full case history of the Dred Scott Case.'

The Library of Congress' American Memory project 'contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.'

"...Dodd’s Nuremberg papers contain documentation relating to the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials that are available nowhere else, such as hand annotated drafts of trial briefs and annotated translations of German documents."

Cornell University Law Library's digital collection of 'Contemporary Accounts of Trials From the 1600s to the 1800s.'

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.