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Symposia on R. Kent Newmyer's John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court & Linda Kerber's No Constitutional Right to be Ladies

R. Kent Newmyer. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. Southern Biography Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xviii + 511 pages. Illustrations, essay on sources, index, cases. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8071-2701-9.

Introduction.

Timothy S. Huebner, Department of History, Rhodes College: "R. Kent Newmyer and the Heroic Age of Judicial Biography?"

Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton University:  "Legal History and the Problems of Jurisprudence."

Michael A. Bellesiles, The Newberry Library:  "Making a Nation that would Last."

                R. Kent Newmyer, University of Connecticut: "Response." 

Linda K. Kerber. No Constitutional Right To Be Ladies: Women and Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xxiv + 405 pp. Illustrations, notes and bibliography, and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8090-7383-8; $14.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8090-7384-6.

Introduction.

Ann F. Thomas, New York Law School: "The Long Hello: Uncovering the Citizenship of Women."

Rogers M. Smith, Yale University: "Of Ladies, Liberals, and Promises to Keep."

Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania: "Obligations and Sovereigns."

Linda Kerber, University of Iowa: "Response - The Culture of Coverture."