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Michael Les Benedict
Sponsored by the Institute for Constitutional History at the New-York Historical Society and the George Washington University Law School.
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This primer for historians on copyright covers the history of copyright law and provides a detailed guide to copyright as it relates to research, publication, and teaching for historians.
In this invaluable reader, Michael Les Benedict draws together the important documents that have shaped and been shaped by the American Constitution from medieval times through the present day.
‘When you judge decisions, you have to judge them in light of what there was available to do, ’ noted Secretary of State George C. Marshall to the Senate in…
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This concise, accessible text by historian Michael Benedict provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. The fourth edition is…
Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected…
In the second revised and expanded edition of this invaluable reader, Michael Les Benedict draws together the important documents that have shaped and been shaped by the American Constitution from…
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Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State University)
This book argues that although Johnson’s impeachment did not succeed in ousting him, it was a justified step. It describes the critical issues and events leading up to the impeachment…
In the two-volume ‘The History of Ohio Law’, legal historians, practicing Ohio attorneys, and judges present the history of Ohio law and the interaction between law and society in the…
Examines the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without…
The eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the…
Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to…
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