Professor Daniel Cohen was recently featured in an article published on timesunion.com. The article explores the conviction of Whiting Sleeting, who was hanged for committing the murder of the first police officer in the nation to be killed in the line of duty. Professor Cohen offered his expertise on the artifact with which we are able to explore this event: the first-person account written by Whiting, which went on to become a best-selling true crime book for the following decade. Read the entire article here.