Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson
Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson
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Abstract
For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of the most original and creative work on American constitutional and legal history. His prize-winning books have blazed new trails for historians with their substantive arguments and the scope and depth of Nelson's exploration of primary sources. Nelson was the first legal scholar to use early American county court records as sources of legal and social history, and his work (on legal history in England, colonial America, and New York) has been a model for generations of legal historians. This book includes a number of chapters exemplifying and explaining the process of identifying and interpreting archival sources—the foundation of an array of methods of writing American legal history. The chapaters presented here span the full range of American history from the colonial era to the 1980s. Each chapter has either identified a body of sources not previously explored or devised a new method of interrogating sources already known.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: Making Legal Historians
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I Civil Wars and Legal Rights
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The Landscape of Faith: Religious Property and Confiscation in the Early Republic
Sarah Barringer Gordon
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“It cant be cald stealin’”: Customary Law among Civil War Soldiers
Thomas C. Mackey
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Debating the Fourteenth Amendment: The Promise and Perils of Using Congressional Sources
Daniel W. Hamilton
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The Landscape of Faith: Religious Property and Confiscation in the Early Republic
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II Law and Social Regulation
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Was the Warning of Strangers Unique to Colonial New England?
Cornelia H. Dayton andSharon V. Salinger
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Ambiguities of Free Labor Revisited: The Convict Labor Question in Progressive-Era New York
Barry Cushman
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The Long, Broad, and Deep Civil Rights Movement: The Lessons of a Master Scholar and Teacher
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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Counting as a Tool of Legal History
John Wertheimer
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Was the Warning of Strangers Unique to Colonial New England?
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III Courts, Judges, and Litigators
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End Matter
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