Adult Readers

By Lea VanderVelde Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the...

The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of...

By Jean Edward Smith It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of...

By Charles F. Hobson John Marshall remains one of the towering figures in the landscape of American law. From the Revolution to the age of Jackson, he played a critical...

By Ross E. Davies The early 20th century also saw the beginning of the long and ongoing run of Casey at Bat as an analogical-metaphorical-comical device in commentary about the...

By Brian J. Daugherity (Editor), Brian Grogan (Editor) In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American...

By Ralph A. Rossum Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is...

By William H. Rehnquist Near midnight on Election Day in November 1876, the returns coming into Republican National headquarters signaled a victory for the Democratic presidential candidate, Samuel J. Tilden....

By Glenn C. Smith and Patricia Fusco Are you a student looking for trusted, plain-English guidance on the ins and outs of Constitutional law? Look no further! Constitutional Law For...

By David W. Levy (Author) For nearly sixty years, the University of Oklahoma, in obedience to state law, denied admission to African Americans. Only in October 1948 did this racial...