The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History
The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History

Author: John B. Nann

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0300235682

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The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultural history often encounter legal issues that affect their main subjects. Both groups need to understand the laws and legal practices of past eras. This essential reference is intended for the many nonspecialists who need to enter this arcane and often tricky area of research.

Emancipation
Emancipation

Author: John Clay Smith (Jr.)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 9780812216851

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"Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the challenges that lie ahead."—From the Foreword, by Justice Thurgood Marshall

Thomas Henry Burrowes, 1805-1871
Thomas Henry Burrowes, 1805-1871

Author: Robert Landis Mohr

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1512804924

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Lighting Out for the Territory
Lighting Out for the Territory

Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998-07-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0195121228

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Fishkin "offers an intriguing look at how Mark Twain's life and work have been cherished, memorialized, exploited, and misunderstood."

The Last Foray
The Last Foray

Author: Chalmers Gaston Davidson

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The author examines the education, public offices, religion, and general culture of the large plantation owners of antebellum South Carolina. He appends brief biographical sketches of almost 400 plantation owners, including birth and death dates, names of plantations, land and slave holdings, details of education, church affiliations, public offices held, society memberships, and publications credited.