New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History
Spring Edition, 2010
(compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College)
Altschuler, Glenn and Stuart Blumin. The GI Bill: The New Deal for Veterans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pivotal Moments in American History. 272 pp. (cloth, $24.95).
Bank, Steven A. From Sword to Shield: The Transformation of the Corporate Income Tax, 1861 to Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 304 pp. (cloth, $75.00).
Barnhart, Bill and Gene Schlikcman. John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life. Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 324 pp. (cloth, $26.95).
Beeman, Richard. Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. New York: Random House, 2010. 544 pp. (paper, $18.00).
Botham, Faye. Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. (cloth, $35.00).
Carnahan, Burrus M. Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War. Lexington, Ken.: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 165 pp. (cloth, $30.00).
Davies, Sharon. Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 336 pp. (cloth, $27.95).
Eisgruber, Christopher L. and Lawrence G. Sager. Religious Freedom and the Constitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 352 pp. (cloth, $30.50, paper, $18.95).
Gibson, Alan. Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic. Second ed. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. 248 pp. (cloth, $35.00, paper, $16.95).
Gordon, Sara Barringer. The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 352 pp. (cloth, $29.95)
Greenberg, Ethan. Dred Scott and the Dangers of a Political Court. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. 340 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
Gross, Ariela. What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 384 pp. (paper, $18.95).
Heller, J. Roderick, III. Democracy’s Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Southern Biography Series. 384 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Hsueh, Vicki. Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. 216 pp. (cloth, $74.95, paper, $21.95).
Janis, Mark Weston. America and the Law of Nations, 1776-1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 320 pp. (cloth, $100.00).
Kasper, Eric T. To Secure the Liberty of the People: James Madison’s Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court’s Interpretation. Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 270 pp. (cloth, $38.00).
Lacroix, Alison L. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 320 pp. $35.00. (cloth, $35.00).
Lewis, Anthony. Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. Boulder, Co.: Basic Books, 2010. 240 pp. (paper, $15.95).
Littlefield, Douglas R. Conflict on the Rio Grande: Water and the Law, 1879-1939. Norman, Okl.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 299 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Maguire, Peter. Law and War: An American Story. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 480 pp. (cloth, $83.50, paper, $27.00).
Neff, Stephen. Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 360 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Nussbaum, Martha. Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality. Boulder, Co.: Basic Books, 2010. 416 pp. (paper, $18.95).
Oshinsky, David M. Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 160 pp. (cloth, $29.95, paper, $14.95).
Pommersheim, Frank. Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 424 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Rambo, Kirsten. “Trivial Complaints”: The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 264 pp. (cloth, $60.00).
Reynolds, Susan. Before Eminent Domain: Toward a History of Expropriation of Land for the Common Good. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 192 pp. Studies in Legal History. (cloth, $40.00).
Riser, R. Volney. Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 344 pp. (cloth, $40.00).
Robinson, Greg. A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 408 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Root, Erik S. Sons of the Fathers: The Virginia Slavery Debates of 1831-1832. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. 352 pp. (cloth, $75.00).
Roth, Randolph. American Homicide. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 672 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Samito, Christian G. Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. 312 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Schwartz, Philip J. Slave Laws in Virginia. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Studies in the Legal History of the South. 253 pp. (paper, $24.95).
Sloan, Cliff and David McKean. The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court. Boulder, Co.: Public Affairs, 2010. 288 pp. (cloth, $26.95, paper, $18.95).
Strum, Philippa. Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 192 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $16.05).
Valencia, Richard R. Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality. New York: New York University Press, 2010. Critical America Series. 480 pp. (paper, $25.00).
Whitaker, Robert. On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2010. 400 pp. (paper, $16.00).
Yoo, John. Crisis and Command: The History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush. 524 pp. New York: Kaplan Publishing. 524 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
(This list is compiled from publishers’ websites and Amazon.com and includes titles published between December 2009 and May 2010. Authors are encouraged to submit information on upcoming books to huebner@rhodes.edu )
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Spring 2009.
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