The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction, Paperback - Charles Lane

Reducere. "Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."--Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book ReviewFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a to...

Reducere. On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's cou...

During the course of American history, wrongful events have occurred and certain Americans have stood up and spoken out against these wrongs: Tom P...

Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book...

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Authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, this study systematically presents and validates the use of the attitu...

The riveting story of how the Supreme Court turned a blind eye on justice, stripped away the equal rights promised to all Americans, and ushered in...

DescriptionFor more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's his...

Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

Reducere. The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the...

DescriptionFor more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's his...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of San...

The left's partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic poli...

Reducere. As a mother, Cheryl E. Musick would have done anything for her daughter. But when a devastating addiction wreaks havoc on her family, she realizes ...

A modern novel set in GoaPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Glen PetersNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 33Cover...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

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In Connie Berry's third Kate Hamilton mystery, American antique dealer Kate Hamilton's spring is cut short when a body turns up at the May Fair pag...

Reducere. A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolut...

Reducere. The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secr...

Reducere. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist b...

Reducere. Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even mo...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Richard J. LazarusNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. "Superbly well written . . . a wonderfully informative guide to the Supreme Court both past and present."--David J. Garrow, American HistoryJeffrey...

This classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions alon...

Reducere. DescriptionUntil The New Press first published "May It Please the Court" in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Cour...

One day all the screens went dark--and we couldn't even post about it. We all dream about it: a life free of scrolling, tweeting, liking, faving, s...

Reducere. What does the U.S. Supreme Court do? Learn about who can be on the Supreme Court, how they are chosen, where they work, and more. Descriptive main ...

DescriptionJustice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform ...

DescriptionWith the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English comm...

"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is ...

A lifelong smasher of glass-ceilings, who took as her motto 'women are equal to everything', her landmark rulings in areas including domestic viole...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...