Books written by Williamjames Hull Hoffer
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To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891
The plan came from an Ohio superintendent of schools , Edward Emerson White , whose speeches and writings bespoke a concentrated form of republican , antibureaucracy ethic . He also emphasized American exceptionalism .
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The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer ... 367; Thomas P. Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014), 435. 10.
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The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth...
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Plessy V. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America
A concise readable summary and guide to Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), one of the Supreme Court's most famous and controversial decisions--one that offered legal cover for the practice of segregation for nearly six decades.
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The Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War
A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century.
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The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second Edition
The Supreme Court chronicles an institution that dramatically evolved from six men meeting in borrowed quarters to the most closely watched tribunal in the world.
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Reading and Writing American History
The book is thus really a work-text, with opportunities for students to pause and reflect on what they are learning every few pages.
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The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that key protagonists in the story of American independence were members of the bar with ...