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  • The Long, Lingering Shadow

    Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere

    de Robert J. Cottrol ...
    Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • To Trust the People with Arms

    The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment

    de Robert J. Cottrol, Brannon P. Denning ...
    In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Caste, Culture, and the Constitution

    de Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, Leland B. Ware ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Winner: Langum PrizeBefore 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation. That began to change with Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that overturned the pernicious “separate but equal” doctrine. In declaring that legally mandated school segregation was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court played a critical role in helping to dismantle ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Securing Civil Rights

    Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms

    de Stephen P. Halbrook ...
    Stephen Halbrook's groundbreaking study of freed slaves and the right to bear arms in the aftermath of the Civil War, cited in Supreme Court cases, now with a new foreword by Robert J. Cottrol.What did it mean to take civil rights seriously—especially the "right to bear arms"—in the years following the abolition of slavery? By quoting legislative debates, Congressional hearings on Ku Klux Klan ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Gun Control and the Constitution

    The Courts, Congress, and the Second Amendment

    Edición de Robert J. Cottrol ...
    First Published in 1993. This volume is a collection of legal and historical material of the second amendment that includes court cases and decisions, law review articles and gives a balanced view of both sides of the debate. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England

    Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England

    Edición de Robert J. Cottrol ...
    An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume is accompanied by Cottrol's introduction, which discusses their significance and the window that they open on the lives of black New Englanders as they moved from eighteenth century slavery to freedom and the struggle for equality in the ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Words We Live By

    Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution

    de Linda R. Monk ...
    An informative look at America's Constitution, updated with rulings on issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action.In The Words We Live By, Linda R. Monk probes the idea that the Constitution may seem to offer cut-and-dried answers to questions regarding personal rights, but the interpretations of this hallowed document are nearly infinite. For example, in the ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • The Bill of Rights Primer

    A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights

    de Akhil Reed Amar, Les Adams ...
    Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this pocket-sized volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding.The Bill of Rights ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Bill of Rights

    A User's Guide

    de Linda R. Monk ...
    An engaging, accessible guide to the Bill of Rights for everyday citizens.With a Foreword by US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgIn The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Citizen's Constitution

    An Annotated Guide

    de Seth Lipsky ...
    Pocket versions of the Constitution of the United States of America abound, as do multi-volume commentaries, scholarly histories of its writing, and political posturings of various clauses. But what if you want a delightfully quick, witty, and readable reference that, in one compact volume, places the document and its clauses into context? You're out of luck -- until now. Written by Seth Lipsky, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege

    Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History

    de Michael Kent Curtis, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    de Paul Ortiz ...
    Series Libro 4 - ReVisioning History
    An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD