Carole Haber, PhD, is professor of history and dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. She is the author of Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past and the coauthor of Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History.
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On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot and killed her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair’s lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of t... SEE MORE