Category - Law
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Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decisio...
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00Original price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roili...
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The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma: A Legal History
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government....
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Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A unique graphic history of one of the most controversial legal decisions of all time—with 118 powerful linoleum prints In 1931, nine black youth...
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Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off...
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African Americans in Tangipahoa & St. Helena Parishes
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tangipahoa and St. Helena are two of the eight Florida Parishes in southeast Louisiana. In 1810, St. Helena Parish was founded, and Tangipahoa Pari...
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas - and on the home front, has loc...
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The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The tragic story of the killing of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr., the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth ce...
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Justice Pursued: The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /An in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past In...
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Justice Pursued: The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past In ...
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Breaking Barriers: A View from the Bench
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In Breaking Barriers, Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr. describes how he made history in Baton Rouge by becoming the first African American to be elected t...
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she d...
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One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late. Our democratic republic is failing, and it shouldn't be a surp...
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The Trial of the Century
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gripping and comprehensive history of the iconic attorney Clarence Darrow and the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, from the #1 Ne...
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The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardA riveting Revolutiona...
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America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideolog...
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Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Bourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminates the dev...
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Gripping and essential.”—Jesse Wegman, New York Times An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Foundi...
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the...
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Widely acclaimed at the time of its publication, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Right...
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The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Words We Live By takes an entertaining and informative look at America's most important historical document, now with discussions on new ruli...
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Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dan...
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American Indians, American Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Baffled by the stereotypes presented by Hollywood and much historical fiction, many other Americans find the contemporary American Indian an enig...
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States....
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