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- 1From:Journal of Law in Society (Vol. 18, Issue 1)A. Slavery and the Law in Michigan In early Michigan, Africans and Native Americans (1) were enslaved in the Detroit settlement, (1) which at the time spanned both sides of the Detroit River. (2) On a smaller scale,...
- 2From:Biblical Theology Bulletin (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In its application of biblical historical criticism to the American founding, this analysis departs from traditional scholarship and the textual measure of biblical influence. Moving beyond the textual...
- 3From:Journal of Law in Society (Vol. 18, Issue 1)Laws empower governments. They control behavior, shape attitudes and codify important societal values. As predominant means for promoting change or preserving the status quo, laws also reflect a people's fundamental...
- 4From:Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBefore the enactment of separate property and contract rights for married women, generations of married women in seaport cities and towns conducted business as merchants, traders and shopkeepers. The first part of this...
- 5From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Near the end of John Ford's masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, (1) a newspaper reporter observes, "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." (2) More than a few popular legends about...
- 6From:California History (Vol. 81, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAs much as today's state legislators, officials, and bureaucrats are criticized in California--sometimes with just cause--the first generation of political and governmental leaders was even more vilified in its own day....
- 7From:Business History Review (Vol. 71, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe contribution made by the private banking sector to the economic development in antebellum US is examined through a case study of the private banking house Thomas Branch and Sons in Petersburg, VA. This banking...
- 8From:The Historian (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost historians agree that middle and upper class white women in the antebellum South ordered their lives and identities around deeply rooted gender conventions. As historian Joan Cashin points out, gender shaped...
- 9From:Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of ScienceThe Southeast contains a wealth of unexploited nineteenth century historical documents and early instrumental records for climatic reconstructions. The precipitation frequency across the Southeast from 1820-1860 was...
- 10From:The Western Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In 1858, during a trip to Montgomery on his steamboat, Robert B. Taney, Captain Timothy Meaher conceived of the voyage of the Clotilde. Captain Meaher bet some eastern gentlemen $100,000 that he could bring...
- 11From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMy assigned tasks at this Symposium were to speak about the legacy of judicial review in general, and the legacy of Chief Justice John Marshall in particular. As originally delivered, my remarks were divided into two...
- 12From:The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA study of immigrant mobility, particularly occupational and financial mobility of common laborers, in the 19th century revealed that those who departed from their native counties in 1850 had as much chance as those who...
- 13From:Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe use of the term "the Bill of Rights" as a proper noun that refers specifically and exclusively to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution was largely a result of civic education drives in the 1920s and...
- 14From:Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION The Supreme Court's Second Amendment jurisprudence has paid careful attention to the Second Amendment in the nineteenth century. District of Columbia v. Heller cited with approval antebellum cases which...
- 15From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 1)The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was "the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life." So said President...
- 16From:California History (Vol. 81, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe Gold Rush flooded California with people seeking riches and expecting the institutions of the law to protect their interests. To create those institutions, delegates went to Monterey in 1849 for the first state...
- 17From:American Antiquity (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe social and material lives of African Americans on antebellum plantations in the southern United States were heavily influenced by power relations inherent to the institution of slavery. Although planters exerted...
- 18From:The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStrong ties between entrepreneurs from Chicago, IL, and its western counterparts have rendered Chicago the title as the 'great city of the West.' The battle for regional dominance between Chicago and St. Louis, MI, was...
- 19From:Civil War History (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedToombs of Georgia: Nine-tenths of the [internal improvements] bills which have been reported, I think are for the [Great] lakes.... Not one of these bills is for the Atlantic coast.... This time the western rivers are...
- 20From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfter more than a century of failure, Congress now stands closer than ever to making lynching a federal crime. As the pending legislation acknowledges, at least 4,742 people were lynched in the United States between 1882...