Paul Finkelman: 11 books
Millard Fillmore
The American Presidents Series: The 13th President, 1850-1853
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war
In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the...
Supreme Injustice
Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre–Civil War justices—Marshall, Taney, and Story—upheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice’s proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.
Slavery and the Founders
Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage. The book explores the tension between the professed idea of America as stated in the...
by Paul Finkelman, Karen E. Robbins, Timothy S. Huebner
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war broke out. He then switched to a more military role, serving on the staffs of George Washington and Lafayette. He entered government after the war and...
Elbert Parr Tuttle
Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This is the first—and the only authorized—biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897–1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. By the time Tuttle became chief judge of the United States...
The Long, Lingering Shadow
Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
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,...
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo...
In Essentials, Unity
An Economic History of the Grange Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The Patrons of Husbandry—or the Grange—is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, has had immeasurable influence on social change as enacted by ordinary Americans. The Grange sought to relieve the struggles of small farmers by encouraging...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
Signposts
New Directions in Southern Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more...
Homicide Justified
The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common...