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"The Civil War was the most dramatic, violent, and fateful
experience in American history. . . . Little wonder that the Civil
War had a profound impact that has echoed down the generations and
remains undiminished today. That impact helps explain why at least
50,000 books and pamphlets . . . on the Civil War have been
published since the 1860s. Most of these are in the Library of
Congress, along with thousands of unpublished letters, diaries, and
other documents that make this depository an unparalleled resource
for studying the war. From these sources, the editors of "The
Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference "have compiled a
volume that every library, every student of the Civil War--indeed
everyone with an interest in the American past--will find
indispensable." --From the Foreword by James M. McPherson, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom "
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
Originally published in 2000, the Encyclopedia of Religion and
American Law, comprehensively describes and analyses important
cases and legal controversies between religion and state. The book
has contributions from numerous distinguished history and law
professors and practicing attorneys of the period. It provides
short and articulate encyclopedic style entries which capture the
colour, richness and complexity of the topics covered. The book’s
multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference
resource for scholars and students of law, as well as a valuable
addition to any legal collection.
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book's multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book's multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book's multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central
issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders
of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question
of human bondage. The book explores the tension between the
professed idea of America as stated in the Declaration of
Independence, and the reality of the early American republic,
reminding us of the profound and disturbing ways that slavery
affected the U.S. Constitution and early American politics. It also
offers the most important and detailed short critique of Thomas
Jefferson's relationship to slavery available, while at the same
time contrasting his relationship to slavery with that of other
founders. This third edition of Slavery and the Founders
incorporates a new chapter on the regulation and eventual (1808)
banning of the African slave trade.
In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central
issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders
of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question
of human bondage. The book explores the tension between the
professed idea of America as stated in the Declaration of
Independence, and the reality of the early American republic,
reminding us of the profound and disturbing ways that slavery
affected the U.S. Constitution and early American politics. It also
offers the most important and detailed short critique of Thomas
Jefferson's relationship to slavery available, while at the same
time contrasting his relationship to slavery with that of other
founders. This third edition of Slavery and the Founders
incorporates a new chapter on the regulation and eventual (1808)
banning of the African slave trade.
Originally published in 2000, the Encyclopedia of Religion and
American Law, comprehensively describes and analyses important
cases and legal controversies between religion and state. The book
has contributions from numerous distinguished history and law
professors and practicing attorneys of the period. It provides
short and articulate encyclopedic style entries which capture the
colour, richness and complexity of the topics covered. The book's
multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference
resource for scholars and students of law, as well as a valuable
addition to any legal collection.
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book's multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book's multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil
Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range
of topics in the subject of civil liberties in America. The book
covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of
speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia
also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book's multidisciplinary
approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for
lawyers, scholars and students.
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford
Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the
musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most
significant developments in African-American history in the
twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in
two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive
compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic
period.
For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the
Encyclopedi a of Harlem Renaissance website.
The interplay of religion and law has long been a major political and social issue in the United States. From the Salem Witch Trials to the current debate over school vouchers, court rulings have had a profound effect on people's lives. Now, a new encyclopedia provides detailed entries on all of the major Supreme Court decisions dealing with church and state, topical and theoretical essays relating to the issue, and cogent biographies of those Justices whose decisions have achieved landmark status in the debate. Encompassing cases from the colonial period to the Supreme Court's important decisions in 1997, this pioneering volume is written in a clear, concise style that will be useful to professionals and specialists and accessible to students. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, this Encyclopedia will benefit all reference libraries, students of law and religion, and anyone working in the field of church and state. eBook available with sample pages: 0203428226
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Much has been written about John Brown and his ill-fated raid on
Harpers Ferry, but as Brown himself recognized, his power would be
greater in death than in life. This is the first book length
examination of Brown's legacy: what different segment of American
society, with their differing aspirations, fears, and purposes,
made of Brown's attempt to foment a slave rebellion and his
subsequent trial and execution.
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford
Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the
musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most
significant developments in African-American history in the
twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in
two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive
compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic
period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit
the Encyclopedia of Harlem Renaissance website.
The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil
War-Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate
Justice Joseph Story-upheld the institution of slavery in ruling
after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the
legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply
into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In
Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian Paul Finkelman
establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery
position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and
the incentives created by circumstances in his private life.
Finkelman uses census data and other sources to reveal that Justice
Marshall aggressively bought and sold slaves throughout his
lifetime-a fact that biographers have ignored. Justice Story never
owned slaves and condemned slavery while riding circuit, and yet on
the high court he remained silent on slave trade cases and ruled
against blacks who sued for freedom. Although Justice Taney freed
many of his own slaves, he zealously and consistently opposed black
freedom, arguing in Dred Scott that free blacks had no
Constitutional rights and that slave owners could move slaves into
the Western territories. Finkelman situates this infamous holding
within a solid record of support for slavery and hostility to free
blacks. Supreme Injustice boldly documents the entanglements that
alienated three major justices from America's founding ideals and
embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.
"In short, we have a first-rate study of an important
constitutional symbol of disunion." --Donald Roper, American
Journal of Legal History 26 (1982) 255. Finkelman describes the
judicial turmoil that ensued when slaves were taken into free
states and the resultant issues of comity, conflict of laws,
interstate cooperation, Constitutional obligations, and the
nationalization of slavery. "Other scholars have defined the
antebellum constitutional crisis largely in terms of the extension
of slavery to the territories and the return of fugitive slaves.
Finkelman's study demonstrates that the comity problem was also an
important dimension of intersectional tension. It is a worthy
addition to the growing literature of slavery." -- James W. Ely,
Jr., California Law Review 69 (1981) 1755. Paul Finkelman is the
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and
Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Government Law Center, Albany Law
School. He is the author of more than 200 scholarly articles and
more than 35 books including A March of Liberty: A Constitutional
History of the United States, with Melvin I. Urofsky (2011),
Slavery, Race and the American Legal System, 1700-1872 (editor)
(1988) and Slavery in the Courtroom (1985).
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Central to the development of the American legal system, writes
Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of
slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and
property, but about the nature of American democracy itself.
Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the
intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from the
earliest Black Codes in colonial America to the passage of the
Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision prior to the Civil
War. Slavery & the Law's wide-ranging essays focus on
comparative slave law, auctioneering practices, rules of evidence,
and property rights, as well as issues of criminality, punishment,
and constitutional law. What emerges from this multi-faceted
portrait is a complex legal system designed to ensure the property
rights of slave-holders and to institutionalize racism. The
ultimate result was to strengthen the institution of slavery in the
midst of a growing trend toward democracy in the
mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic community.
"When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government
had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed.
Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural
address, noting: 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to
interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it
exists.'" How, then, asks Paul Finkelman in the introduction to
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation, did Lincoln-who personally
hated slavery-lead the nation through the Civil War to January
1865, when Congress passed the constitutional amendment that ended
slavery outright? The essays in this book examine the route Lincoln
took to achieve emancipation, and how it is remembered both in the
United States and abroad. The ten contributors-all on the cutting
edge of contemporary scholarship on Lincoln and the Civil War-push
our understanding of this watershed moment in US history in new
directions. They present wide-ranging contributions to Lincoln
studies, including a parsing of the sixteenth president's career in
Congress in the 1840s and a brilliant critique of the historical
choices made by Stephen Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner in the
movie Lincoln, about the passage of the thirteenth amendment. As a
whole, these classroom-ready readings provide fresh and essential
perspectives on Lincoln's deft navigation of constitutional and
political circumstances to move emancipation forward.
The Patrons of Husbandry-or the Grange-is the longest-lived US
agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the
Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as
enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the
struggles of small farmers by encouraging collaboration.
Pathbreaking for its inclusion of women, the Grange is also well
known for its association with Gilded Age laws aimed at curbing the
monopoly power of railroads. In Essentials, Unity takes as its
focus Grange founder Oliver Kelley and his home organization in
Minnesota. Jenny Bourne draws upon numerous historical records to
present a lively picture of a fraternal organization devoted to
improving the lot of farmers but whose legacies extend far beyond
agriculture. From struggles over minimum wage, birth control, and
environmental regulation to the conflicts surrounding the
Affordable Care Act, and from lunch-counter sit-ins to Occupy Wall
Street, the Grange has shaped the very notion of collective action
and how it is deployed even today. As this compact book so
effectively illustrates, the history of the Patrons of Husbandry
exposes the classic tension between the desires for achieving
overall economic success and determining how the spoils are split.
Recipient of the Joseph L. Andrews Award in 1986. This book
provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet
materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and
Great Britain. It provides the reader with an understanding of most
of the important American and British cases on slavery.
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