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Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

By Joshua Horwitz & Casey Anderson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, American Studies, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

The Poverty Law Canon

Exploring the Major Cases

By Ezra Rosser & Marie Failinger
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Class Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, History, American History
Series: Class : Culture

Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years

Faith in Paper

The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties

By Charles E. Cleland
Subjects: Native American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, History, American History, Law, Legal History

A comprehensive reference on the litigation of Indian treaty rights in the upper Great Lakes region

Ellery's Protest

How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer

By Stephen D. Solomon
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Media Studies, Journalism, Religion, American Religious History

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history

Cross Purposes

Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education

By Paula Abrams
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, American Religious History, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, Religion, Education

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

By Ronald Walters
Subjects: African American Studies, History, American History, Law, Political Science, Race and Politics, African Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

A Good Quarrel

America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court

By Jerry Goldman & Timothy R. B. Johnson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, Media Studies, Journalism

The country's top legal reporters comment on and analyze some of the most important oral arguments in recent court history

Beyond Busing

Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity

By Paul R. Dimond
Subjects: Political Science, History, American History, Law

Discusses the landmark school and housing desegregation cases of the 1970s

Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

By David Kairys
Subjects: History, American History, African American History, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Memoir, African American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender Studies

The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers

The Great Justices, 1941-54

Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers

By William Domnarski
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Biography, History, American History, Political Science, Judicial Politics

An illuminating look at how the egos and ambitions of four celebrated Supreme Court justices affected their thinking on issues that still resonate today

Equal Justice in the Balance

America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat

By Raneta Lawson Mack & Michael J. Kelly
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics, History, American History

An exacting look at American legal responses to terrorism, both before and after 9/11

With All Deliberate Speed

The Life of Philip Elman

By Norman I. Silber
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics, Education, History, American History

A behind-the-scenes look at an unrecognized giant of American legal history and his role in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education

Defending Diversity

Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan

By Patricia Gurin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Earl Lewis, Eric L. Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin
Subjects: Education, Law, African American Studies, History, American History

The first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women

Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

By Julie Lavonne Novkov
Subjects: Law, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal years

Rebels in Law

Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers

Edited by J. Clay Smith
Subjects: Law, Sociology, Gender Studies, History, American History

The reflections on their lives in law of pioneer black women lawyers

Frank Murphy

The Detroit Years

By Sidney Fine
Subjects: History, American History, Law
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