Adult Readers

By Jennifer Barnes Bowie (Author), Donald R. Songer (Author), John Szmer (Author) For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the...

Hardcover By Kenneth W. Jost The Supreme Court A to Z offers accessible information about the Supreme Court, including its history, traditions, organization, dynamics, and personalities. The entries in The...

By John Niven Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end...

By George Martin Though he held no elected or appointed office, the New York City lawyer Charles C. Burlingham had great influence with those who did, and used it in...

Hardcover By David N. Gellman In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age.  The Jays of New...

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...