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
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300235682

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
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780812216851

"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
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1512804924

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
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1998-07-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0195121228

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
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1971
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.