Adult Readers

By John Bessler (Author) The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution tells the forgotten, untold story of the origins of U.S. law. Before the Revolutionary War,...

By Nancy Maveety In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court of law, the United States Supreme...

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 Ann McCellan (Author) This stunningly beautiful record of the nation's biggest springtime festival – the National Cherry Blossom Festival – is a breathtaking illustrated memory of the beauty and...

The first comprehensive historical treatment of resignations, retirements and and deaths explaining when and why justices have stepped down.

By Laura Weinrib (Author) In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills...

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 John Charles Thomas (Author), W. Taylor Reveley III (Foreword) This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black―and, at...

By Alison L. LaCroix A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision Between 1815...

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 Christopher James Bonner (Author) Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle...