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Hardcover By Mary Sarah Bilder In this provocative new biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s—the Age of the Constitution—to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in...

By Wayne Whipple This book was published in 1910 "to tell the thrilling story of the Stars and Stripes, and the very best of all that has ever appeared about...

By Colleen A. Sheehan (Author) In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison’s National Gazette essays of 1791–92 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces...

By Howard Ball Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set...

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...

By Philippa Strum (Author) *Signed by Author While Brown v. Board of Education remains much more famous, Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) was actually the first case in which segregation in education...

By Mark R. Killenbeck (Author) *Signed by Author Federalism—including its meanings and limits—remains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law. To fully understand its importance, we must turn...

Published by The United States Capitol Historical Society The comprehensive guidebook to the U.S. Capitol focuses on the art, architecture and history of the Capitol, and on the Congress that...

By John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension...

By Peter Charles Hoffer The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall...

By James B. Staab The Political Thought of Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court traces Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence back to the political and constitutional thought of Alexander...

By R. Kent Newmeyer The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of...