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*Signed Bookplate By Lucas E. Morel In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and practice was...

By Lea VanderVelde More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women,...

Hardcover By Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick With a survey of the thirty Supreme Court cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics...

By Henry Mark Holzer The Keeper of the Flame is an examination and analysis of Justice Clarence Thomas's majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions, showing extensively, in his own words, what...

By Charles A. Lofgren In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within...

*Signed Bookplate By Timothy S. Huebner “This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this...

Paperback By Martha S. Jones Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans. Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws...