Legal history

A study of the Supreme Court tenure of the only US president to serve as chief justice provides a unique perspective on 1920s America.

Montana's state constitution was created during the early 1970s.

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies.

A study of the man who led the Supreme Court as the nineteenth century ended and the twentieth began, exploring issues of property, government authority, and more.

Examines different persons, periods, places, and principles to weave a narrative about a practice that spawned a legal tradition.

Tennesseans pioneered innovations in self-government beginning in 1772, and they have continued to do so since the enactment of their first formal constitution in 1796.

The Arkansas State Constitution provides an outstanding historical account of Arkansas's five different constitutions, conventions, and amendments.

A study of the Supreme Court tenure of the only US president to serve as chief justice provides a unique perspective on 1920s America.

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

In The Louisiana State Constitution, Lee Hargrave provides a compehensive history and provision-by-provision commentary of the state's current constitution.

The Michigan State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries.