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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...
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...
Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth
By Pamela Brandwein Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of...
The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington
By John Knox; Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has...
Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay: Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife
By Louise V. North and Janet M. Wedge
Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife
I Am An American: The Wong Kim Ark Story
By Martha Brockenbrough (Author), Grace Lin (Author), Julia Kuo (Illustrator) When American-born Wong Kim Ark returns home to San Francisco after a visit to China, he's stopped and told he...
You Are The Juror
Hardcover By Nathan Aaseng The author continues his useful series on decision making with incisive coverage of eight famous criminal trials of the 20th century. Beginning with the Lindbergh kidnapping...