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The Study of History in Our Time
"How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty wha...
Equitable Constitutionalism in America
The Law's Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor's court in medieval England to the r...
Essays on History and the Humanities
Hoffer traces history's complicated partnership with its coordinate disciplines of religion, philosophy, the social sciences, literature, biography, p...
A History of Early America
Wide-ranging in scope, inclusive in content, the revised edition of The Brave New World continues to provide professors, students, and historians with...
A Surprising History
"A history of the most famous, and infamous, footnotes in leading US Supreme Court cases"--...
An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law. How did American colonists transform British law into their own? Wh...
A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America
Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of A...
A Legal History
Historian Peter Charles Hoffer reexamines a notorious episode in American history and presents many of its legal details in true perspective for the f...
Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery
In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rightsโa...
Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imp...
Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuas...
The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739
Provides an account of the slave revolt along South Carolina's Stono River on September 9, 1739, the only notable rebellion to occur in British North ...
An Essential History, Second Edition
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nationโs history. Now a ...
Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word
In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thoughtโthe Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book t...
An Essential History
There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its deci...
The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer
In the current legal climate where โeveryone is an originalist,โ conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Or...
Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Approaching the subject as a legal and social historian, Peter Charles Hoffer offers a fresh look at the Salem outbreak based on recent studies of pan...
Presents a 'sensory history' of early North America, this text offers an understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played i...
America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice
An introduction to and meditation on the key concepts, history, evolution, complexities, and importance of law in our nation's 233-year existence....
Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law
Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspira...
Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review
Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case in the aftermath of...
Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die
Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; a mistake that discriminates against certai...
The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History, Third Updated Edition
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it re...
"Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding Father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton, resulting in a murder...
Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and
Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it w...
The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. ...
The Lawyers' Civil War
Uncivil Warriors is an expansive and authoritative account of the central role of law and lawyers in the Civil War. Peter Hoffer shows battles over fr...
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War. Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 ses...
The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775
โA fine study . . . by a prolific scholar who adeptly restores the Salem Gunpowder Raid to its rightful place in the history of the American Revolut...
An Introduction to the Historian's Craft
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Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950โ1975
The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who ...
Facts, Fictions, and Fraud--American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin
It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed by it: Michae...
Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp Act Protests to Parliament, 1766 brings together a unique collection of primary source documents, organized and a...
Two Views of American History from the Revolutionary Crisis to the Early Works of George Bancroft and Wendell Phillips
The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History
In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, drama...
Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776