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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present(Updated)
From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century Five-volume set
by University Paul Finkelman, Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman
Hardcover, 2,672 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press, Usa
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516779-5, ISBN: 0-19-516779-1

"Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African American culture on the American cultural landscap ..."

Lincoln's Proclamation(Updated)
Emancipation Reconsidered (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
by Karen Fisher Younger, William A. Blair, William Alan Blair, Richard Carwardine, Paul Finkelman, Louis S. Gerteis, Steven Hahn, Stephanie Mccurry, Mark E. Neely, Michael Vorenberg
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3316-2, ISBN: 0-8078-3316-9

"Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the Border States, where slavery remained legal) and, effectively, only in the parts of the South occupied by the Union. Questions persist regarding Lincoln's moral conviction and the extent to ..."

Beyond Confederation(Updated)
Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
by Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward Carlos Carter, Lance Banning, Richard D. Brown, Richard E. Ellis, Paul Finkelman, Stanley N. Katz, Ralph Lerner, Drew R. Mccoy, John M. Murrin, Jack N. Rakove, Janet A. Riesman, Gordon S. Wood, Stephen Beeman
Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4172-3, ISBN: 0-8078-4172-2

""Beyond Confederation" scrutinizes the ideological background of the U.S. Constitution, the rigors of its writing and ratification, and the problems it both faced and provoked immediately after ratification. The essays in this collection question much of the heritage of eighteenth-century constitutional thought and suggest that many of the commonly debated issues have led us away from the truly germane questions. The authors challenge m ..."

The Long, Lingering Shadow(Updated)
Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.)
by Robert J. Cottrol, Paul Finkelman, Timothy Huebner
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4431-7, ISBN: 0-8203-4431-1

"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 World slavery in colonial Latin Ameri ..."

Signposts(Updated)
New Directions in Southern Legal History (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.)
by Sally Hadden, Patricia Hagler Minter, Alfred L. Brophy, Charles L. Zelden, Cynthia Nicoletti, Professor Jennifer M. Spear, Christopher W. Schmidt, Timothy Huebner, Tim Alan Garrison, Ms Susan Parker, Jessica Lowe, Laura Edwards, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Roman Hoyos, Thomas Ingersoll, James Ely Jr., Christopher Waldrep, Paul Finkelman, Peter Wallenstein, University Paul Finkelman
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4034-0, ISBN: 0-8203-4034-0

"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 deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, "Ambivalent Legac ..."

Jury Discrimination(Updated)
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.)
by Christopher Waldrep, Paul Finkelman, Timothy Huebner
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3002-0, ISBN: 0-8203-3002-7

"In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries. He carried out a plan devised by Mississippi's foremost black lawyer of the time: Willis Mollison. Against staggering odds, and with the help of a friendly newspaper editor, he won. How Marshall and his allies were able to force the court to overturn state law and precedent, if only for a brief peri ..."

The Legal Ideology of Removal(Updated)
The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.)
by Tim Alan Garrison, Kermit Hall, Paul Finkelman, Timothy Huebner
Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3417-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3417-0

"This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, including President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee leader John Ross, and United States Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. This common view minimizes th ..."

The Supreme Court(Updated)
[4 volumes]: Controversies, Cases, and Characters from John Jay to John Roberts
by Paul Finkelman, University Paul Finkelman, Abc-Clio
Hardcover, 1,385 Pages, Published 2014 by Abc-Clio
ISBN-13: 978-1-61069-394-3, ISBN: 1-61069-394-9

"An insightful, chronological―by chief justice―examination of the Supreme Court that enables students and readers to understand and appreciate the constitutional role the Court plays in American government and society.American citizens need to understand the importance of the Supreme Court in determining how our government and society operates, regardless of whether or not they agree with the Court's opinions. Unfortunately, the role and ..."

Double Character(Updated)
Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Studies in the Legal History of the South Ser.)
by Ariela Julie Gross, Kermit Hall, Timothy Huebner, Paul Finkelman, University Paul Finkelman
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2860-7, ISBN: 0-8203-2860-X

"This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. How, asks Ariela J. Gross, did communities reconcile the dilemmas such ..."

The Legal Ideology of Removal(Updated)
The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations
by Tim Alan Garrison, Kermit Hall, Paul Finkelman, Timothy Huebner
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2212-4, ISBN: 0-8203-2212-1

An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America(Updated)
(Studies in the Legal History of the South)
by Paul Finkelman
Hardcover, 616 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2127-1, ISBN: 0-8203-2127-3

"First published in 1858 and unavailable since the 1970s, "An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America" was the first and only treatise published by a southern author on slavery law. Thomas R. R. Cobb, often referred to as the James Madison of the Confederacy, was an ardent secessionist and a prominent lawyer in antebellum Georgia. The work, based on extensive scholarship on the Roman law of slavery and racis ..."