Law in American History
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Law in American History
By Gerald A. Danzer, James G. LengelDiscusses the role of the law, from colonial times to the present, in shaping American history.
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Law in American History: Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War
By G. Edward WhiteBy 1827, disappointed in failing to secure a federal district judgeship for the Southern District ofNew York, Wheaton had accepted an ambassadorship to Denmark.91 Wheaton was succeeded as Reporter for the Supreme Court by Richard Peters ...
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Law in American History: From reconstruction through the 1920s
By G. Edward WhiteFor more detail, see Pamela Brandwein, Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction 93 (2011). My analysis of the Waite Court's decisions in civil rights cases between the early 1870s and the mid- 1880s relies upon, ...
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Law in American History: 1930-2000
By G. Edward WhiteIn the third volume of 'Law in American History' G. Edward White argues that the modern era of constitutional law began in the 1930s and demonstrates how we are still living with changes in foreign policy, executive power, criminal ...
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Law in American History: Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War
By G. Edward WhiteIn the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century, G. Edward White takes up the central themes of American legal history ...