Articles:
“Murder in Lafayette Square” by Heather Thomas
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/09/murder-in-lafayette-square/
“Cold-Blooded Murder in Lafayette Square: The Sickles Tragedy of 1859” by Ariel Veroske
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2013/06/24/cold-blooded-murder-lafayette-
square-sickles-tragedy-1859
Books:
Trial of the Hon. David E. Sickles for shooting Philip Barton Key by by Felix G. Fontaine
via HathiTrust
Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America by Chris
DeRose
Wild beasts & idle humours: The insanity defense from antiquity to the present by
Daniel N. Robinson
Madness, murder and mayhem: Criminal insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain by
Kathryn Burtinshaw
Podcasts:
The History Guy | True Crime Trials: Daniel Sickles' Temporary Insanity and the
murder of Gulielma Sands
Crimes of the Centuries with Amber Hunt | Daniel Sickles: Temporary Insanity?
Citations:
Fac-simile of Mrs. Sickles's confession. , 1859. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/97502250/.
Sickles funeral, 1914. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.15790/
General Dan Sickles in wheelchair, 1912. Photograph. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/gen-dan-sickles-in-wheelchair