Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation ...

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Law in America begins the account of law in America with the...

Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Souther...

This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history n...

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work and civ...

Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen...

What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime...

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the long nineteenth century (1789-...

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, '...

A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody ba...

This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth centu...

This book was first published in 1985. The enactment of the Wagner National Labor Relations Act i...