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Changes in law and society during the Civil War and Reconstruction a legal history documentary reader /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…The status of African Americans before the Civil War -- The expansion of governmental power and the nationalization of the Union -- African Americans, emancipation, and military service -- Rights during the Civil War and Reconstruction : potential, change, and opposition -- Judicial interpretation and limitation of the Civil War amendments and civil rights legislation.…”
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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" : Michigan, 1948-1968 /
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Hatred at home Al-Qaida on trial in the American Midwest /
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American law in the 20th century
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Structure, power, and form : American public law, 1900-1932 -- The legal profession in the early twentieth century -- The law of business and commerce -- Crime and punishment in the new century -- Race relations and civil liberties -- The Roosevelt Revolution -- War and postwar : prosperity and the flowering of the welfare state -- Crime and criminal justice in the postwar world -- Courts, trials, and procedures in the twentieth century -- Race relations and civil rights -- The liability explosion : personal-injury law in the twentieth century -- Business law in an age of change -- The law of property -- Family law and family life -- Internal legal culture : the legal profession -- American legal culture in the twentieth century -- Backward and forward : counterrevolution and its aftershocks -- Getting around and spreading the word -- Law : an American export -- Taking stock.…”
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The Supreme Court and the American elite, 1789-2008
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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith /
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The Madisonian constitution /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Madison's complex constitutionalism -- Congress, the Supreme Court, and the meaning of the Civil War amendments -- The progressive reconstruction of American constitutionalism -- Discontinuities in the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937" -- Unsettling the New Deal and the return of originalism.…”
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Free expression and democracy in America a history /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Democracy and free expression -- Republican democracy from the Revolution through the Civil War -- Free expression in the early years -- The Sedition Act controversy -- Free expression in the nineteenth century to 1865 -- Republican democracy from Reconstruction through 1920 -- Free expression, American society, and the Supreme Court -- Free expression during the World War I era -- Transition to pluralist democracy -- Pluralist democracy and judicial review -- Free expression, pluralist democracy, and the Supreme Court -- The traditions of dissent and suppression in the pluralist democratic regime -- Open questions.…”
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Lincoln, the law, and presidential leadership /
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The Dred Scott case : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Constitutional law and the legitimation of history : the enduring force of Roger Taney's opinion of the court / David Thomas Konig -- Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott case : the history and memory of a signal moment in American slavery, 1857-2007 / Adam Arenson -- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark Graber -- The legacy of the Dred Scott case : the uncertain course of emancipation in Missouri / Louis Gerteis -- An exaggerated legacy : Dred Scott and substantive due process / Austin Allen -- Emancipation and contract law : litigating human property after the Civil War / Daniel W. …”
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