How three skilled orators navigated a polarized political landscape For the generation of politic...

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even viole...

Approaching the subject as a legal and social historian, Peter Charles Hoffer offers a fresh look...

Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes i...

The Law's Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception o...

Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring faction...

This book charts the history of civil litigation in America from the 17th century to today, using...

Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp Act Protests to Parliament, 1766 brings together a unique co...

In this ambitious new work, Peter Charles Hoffer presents a 'sensory history' of early North Amer...

SeemanKing Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty...

An excellent overview of the field.'--Journal of Legal History, reviewing Law and People in Colon...

Hoffer traces history's complicated partnership with its coordinate disciplines of religion, phil...

A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery...

In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History,...

Hoffer argues for a new methodological philosophy of history that mitigates fallibility and parad...

An excellent overview of the field.'--Journal of Legal History, reviewing Law and People in Colon...

You can't outrun it, but you can outsmart it

In this ambitious new work, Peter Charles Hoffer presents a 'sensory history' of early North Amer...

SeemanKing Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty...

The book narrates the Stono River uprising of 1739, a slave rebellion that took the lives of over...

Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War.

At a time when the writing of history has never been more contentious and its interpreters never ...

It makes for essential reading.-- 'New England Quarterly'

This book charts the history of civil litigation in America from the 17th century to today, using...

Revolution and Regeneration is a book about the aging of the 'young men of 1776,' the men who cam...

Wide-ranging and inclusive, The Brave New World continues to provide students, instructors, and h...

Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans

'A history of the most famous, and infamous, footnotes in leading US Supreme Court cases'