Overview :Over the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched our understanding of America's past, broadening their fields of inquiry from su... Read More
Overview :Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds... Read More
Overview :There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and whe... Read More
Overview :Three and a half decades before the city of New York witnessed the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its inde... Read More
Overview :In late seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan was brought into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and M... Read More
Overview :A history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the land In May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft ma... Read More
Overview :Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in ... Read More
Overview :Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffe... Read More
Overview :How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions, and who served in them? A... Read More
Overview :The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to cr... Read More
Overview :Before colonial Americans could declare independence, they had to undergo a change of heart. Beyond a desire to rebel against British mercan... Read More
Overview :For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history... Read More
Overview :Mention the term witch hunt, and Salem, Massachusetts, springs to mind--and with it the power of superstition, the danger of mob mentality, ... Read More
Overview :The story of slavery in the colonial New World is, in part, one of rebellion. In Jamaica, Hispaniola, Dutch Surinam and elsewhere, massive u... Read More
Overview :Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp Act Protests to Parliament, 1766 brings together a unique collection of primary source documents, organ... Read More
Overview :The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 ... Read More
Overview :The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were law... Read More