Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Carey, George W., “Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the Declaration of Independence,” in Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Bruce P. Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso, 80–105. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.)
Chapple, Simon, “Writing Law into ‘New Western History’: Law and Order in Wyoming and New Mexico,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 44–65.
de Forest, Jennifer, “Tilting at Windmills? Judge Justine Wise Polier and a History of Justice and Education in New York City,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 68–88.
Ernst, Daniel, “Morgan and the New Dealers,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 447–81.
Finkelman, Paul, “Regulating the African Slave Trade,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 379–405.
Grisinger, Joanna, “Law in Action: The Attorney General’s Committee on Administrative Procedure,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 379–418.
McGuire, John Thomas, “‘The Most Unjust Piece of Legislation’: Section 213 of the Economy Act of 1932 and Feminism during the New Deal,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 516–41.
Crust, Louis, “Challenging Nonprofit Legal Services: Four Cases from New Orleans, 1970–2004” (University of New Orleans, 2007). Order No. DA3313777.
Field, Corinne T., “Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Adulthood in the United States, 1792–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317547.
Harris, JuNelle, “A Law Apart? The Politics of Pioneering Legislative Family Law Reforms in England and the United States” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312388.
Johnson, Nalo M., “The History of the Founding of the Legal Rights Center: A Study in Coalition Building between the Black and Amerian Indian Communities of Minneapolis” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA33133449.
Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, “The People’s Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections in America” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317214.
Walker, William R., “Only the Heretics Are Burning: Democracy and Repression in World War I America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314243.
White, Jonathan W., “‘To Aid Their Rebel Friends’: Politics and Treason in the Civil War North” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307818.
Dupre, Anne Proffitt, Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 289 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03114-2.)
Duthu, N. Bruce, American Indians and the Law. (New York: Penguin, 2008. xxxii, 270 pp. Cloth, $21.95, isbn 978-0-670-01857-4. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311478-9.)
Friedman, Joel William, Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 401 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3384-2.)
Frohnen, Bruce P., and Kenneth L. Grasso, eds., Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xii, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1820-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1831-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Gless, Alan G., ed., The History of Nebraska Law. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiv, 318 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1787-4.)
Jermann, Donald R., Fitz-John Porter, Scapegoat of Second Manassas: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the General Accused of Disobedience. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 287 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3930-0.)
Matsuura, Jeffrey H., Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls: A Populist Vision of Intellectual Property Rights. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xii, 154 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8139-2771-8.)
Morris, Jeffrey Brandon, Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xx, 441 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8166-4816-0.)
Solomon, Burt, fdr v. the Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. viii, 337 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1589-0.)
Stowell, Daniel W., ed., The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. Vol. 1: xliv, 442 pp. Vol. 2: vi, 479 pp. Vol. 3: vi, 453 pp. Vol. 4: 503 pp. $300.00, isbn 978-0-8139-2606-3.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
Full Text
