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The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court Revisited: Brandeis to Fortas
Paperback Edited by Jennifer M. Lowe Preface by Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Introduction by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Published in conjunction with a five-part symposium held at the...
Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy
By Patricia Gates Lynch A remarkable memoir of one woman's adventures as a World War II military wife, a postwar observer of day to day developments at NATO and SHAPE...
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By Christopher Capozzola Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This plain-English guide walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and...
The Story of the American Flag
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...
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
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...
The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
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...
The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation
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...
M'Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
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...
We, The People: The Story of United States Capitol
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...
Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression
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...
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
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...
The Political Thought of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court
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...