Books written by John Fabian Witt
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THE ACCIDENTAL REPUBLIC
Anyone who finds American history absorbing will gain pleasure and insight from this book.
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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
The most notorious race massacre: John Cimprich & Robert C. Mainfort,Jr., “The Fort Pillow Massacre: A statistical note,” Journal ofAmerican History 76, no. 3 (December 1989): 830–36; noah Andre trudeau, “ 'Kill the last Damn one ...
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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
... yet dead”: Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 240–41. FortNecessity: Account by George Washington and James Mackay of ...
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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
... seized the vessel back: Ibid., 325–28. compensation of foreign nationals: Basler, 7: 38, 40–41. sailed out of Charleston Harbor: John Thomas Scharf, History of the Confederate States Navy (new York: Rogers & Sherwood, 1887), 84–85.
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Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law
... Philadelphia Lawyer, 71 (“entirely met”); Andrew C. McLaughlin, “James Wilson in the Philadelphia Convention,” 12 Pol. Sci. Q. 1, 20 (1897); John Adams to Abigail Adams, March 5, 1796, in 1 DHSCUS, 842; see also 1 DHSCUS, 631. 90.
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
patients.35 By early 1985, Burroughs Wellcome had applied for a patent on AZT, the first antiretroviral drug to show promise for treatment. Early blood tests to detect the virus were also held exclusively.
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The Accidental Republic
“Georgia's Day,” 2; Albert Castel, “Stephen D. Lee,” in 13 American National Biography 403—4 (Iohn A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes eds., 1999); I. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establish— ...
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law.
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To Save the Country
... to save life in the long run.” If Francis Lieber drew on Clausewitz's work, so too did Finlason. (One ... country is paramount to all other considerations,” Finlason's vision of martial law sought “to prevail at all costs ...