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The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741
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 conspiracy spread in the city, leading …
Rutgers v. Waddington
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 violent revolutions, the …
Sensory Worlds in Early America
Honorable Mention, History Category, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards, Association of American PublishersOver the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched …
When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield
In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought-the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the …
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr
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 indictment that effectively …
The Law's Conscience
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 recent civil rights and …
Reading Law Forward
In the current legal climate where “everyone is an originalist,” conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence …
Law and People in Colonial America
An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law.How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first …
John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War.Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all …
The Search for Justice
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 wielded the power of law to …
Historians' Paradox
Hoffer argues for a new methodological philosophy of history that mitigates fallibility and paradoxHow do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of …
Clio among the Muses
History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is …