Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
November 4, 2016

Lederman on The Law (?) of the Lincoln Assassination

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Martin Lederman, Georgetown University Law Center, has published The Law (?) of the Lincoln Assassination in Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW,...
April 15, 2016

Tomlins on Looking for Law in "The Confessions of Nat Turner"

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Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, is publishing Looking for Law in 'The...
April 13, 2016

Meyler on the Politics of the Declaration of Independence Before the Civil War

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Bernadette A. Meyler, Stanford Law School, is publishing Between the States and the Signers: The Politics of the Declaration of Independenc...
March 8, 2016

The Seccessionist Papers From the Calhoun Review

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The Secessionist Papers (Barry Lee Clark et al., The Calhoun Review, 2016) is available. Here is the abstract. Why is it important to ta...
August 28, 2015

Does Hollywood Present a "Pro-Southern" View of the Struggle Between the Union and the Confederacy?

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Eileen Jones has published The Cinematic Lost Cause , arguing that Hollywood generally presents a "pro-South" view of the Civil W...
August 24, 2015

State Constitutional Protections For Economic Rights Prior to the Civil War

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James W. Ely, Jr., Vanderbilt University Law School, is publishing ‘The Sacredness of Private Property:’ State Constitutional Law and the P...
April 27, 2015

Abraham Lincoln as Constitutional Interpreter

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Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of St. Thomas School of Law, has published The Great Interpreter as University of St. Thomas (Minnesota...
December 17, 2013

Remembering the Emancipation Proclamation

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Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Law School, has published History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150 at 3 Jou...
February 27, 2013

Constitutional Compromise

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The February 27, 2013 "Room For Debate" section of the New York Times is devoted to the issue of "The Constitution's Imm...
January 11, 2013

Remembering a Divided Nation

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Currently at the Library of Congress, an exhibit entitled " The Civil War In America ." The New York Times reviews it here.
January 8, 2013

The Lincoln Legend

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John Blake of CNN reviews (and critiques) Steven Spielberg's new film "Lincoln," and suggests that the Spielberg Lincoln is n...
December 17, 2012

The Dred Scott Decision

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David T. Hardy has published Dred Scott, John San(d)Ford, and the Case for Collusion. Here is the abstract. Dred Scott profoundly chang...
August 24, 2012

A New Book About Legal History, Race, and Identity Before the Civil War

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From the University of Pennsylvania Press: In the Shadow of the Gallows ( http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14973.html ) reveals how...
April 28, 2011

The Civil War and American Literature

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Randall Fuller explains the effect of the Civil War on American lit in From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Lite...
April 8, 2011

How Australia's Framers Used the U.S. Civil War

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Helen Irving, University of Sydney Faculty of Law, has published Counterfactual Constitutionalism: The American Civil War and the Framing of...
January 11, 2007

Nables on Law, Literature, and the Civil War

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Deak Nabers has published Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852--1867 (J. Hopkins, 2006) ....