Summer Reading

By Brad Snyder (Author) The story of a young, Black Communist Party organizer wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero....

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 Todd C. Peppers (Editor) In his earlier books, In Chambers and Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers provided an insider’s view of the Supreme Court from the perspective of the clerks who...

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...

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 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 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...