The Reading Room
On American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund Morgan posed the central paradox of American history in his title and then spent a book explaining it.
On American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund Morgan posed the central paradox of American history in his title and then spent a book explaining it.
On The Common Law
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. With that famous opening, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. announced, in 1881, a revolution in how Americans understood...
On The Common Law
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. With that famous opening, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. announced, in 1881, a revolution in how Americans understood...
On Gideon's Trumpet
A poor man named Clarence Earl Gideon, convicted of a petty crime in Florida and forced to defend himself because he could not afford a lawyer, sat in his prison...
On Gideon's Trumpet
A poor man named Clarence Earl Gideon, convicted of a petty crime in Florida and forced to defend himself because he could not afford a lawyer, sat in his prison...
On Make No Law
Anthony Lewis returned to the Supreme Court in Make No Law, published in 1991, to tell the story of the case that, more than any other, made the modern freedom...
On Make No Law
Anthony Lewis returned to the Supreme Court in Make No Law, published in 1991, to tell the story of the case that, more than any other, made the modern freedom...
On Democracy and Distrust
John Hart Ely set out to solve the deepest puzzle in American constitutional law, and Democracy and Distrust, published in 1980, offers the most influential answer of its era.
On Democracy and Distrust
John Hart Ely set out to solve the deepest puzzle in American constitutional law, and Democracy and Distrust, published in 1980, offers the most influential answer of its era.