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Volume 26 - Summer 2008

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Jill Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan, New York: Knopf/Vintage Books, 2005. Pp. 323. $26.95 cloth (ISBN 1-4000-4029-9); $15.95 paper (ISBN 1-4000-3226-1).

Jill Norgren, Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President, New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. 232. $35.00 (ISBN 0-8147-5834-7).

H. Robert Baker, The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. 260. $38.95 (ISBN 0-8214-1690-1).

Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. Pp. xi + 370. $30 (ISBN 978-0-8090-8061-8).

Richard Holcombe KilbourneJr., Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. Pp. 202. $99.00 (ISBN 1-85196-890-3).

Markus Dirk Dubber, The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 268. $75.00 cloth (ISBN 0-231-13206-9); $24.50 paper. (ISBN 0-231-13207-7).

Mary Gorton McBride with Ann Mathison McLaurin, Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 320. $45.00 (ISBN 0-8071-3234-9).

Edward A. PurcellJr., Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 320. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-300-122203-9).

Stuart Streichler, Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 271. $37.50 (ISBN 0-8139-2342-5).

John V. Orth, How Many Judges Does It Take to Make a Supreme Court? And Other Essays on Law and the Constitution, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Pp. 134. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-7006-1478-3); $12.95 paper (ISBN 0-7006-1479-0).

Colin Dayan, The Story of Cruel & Unusual, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. Pp. xx + 100. $14.95 (ISBN 978-0-262-04239-0).

Daniel W. Hamilton, The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 231. $39.00 (ISBN 0-226-31482-0).

Rusty Bittermann, Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 372. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8020-0439-3); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-8020-7229-1).

Kass Fleisher, The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. 348. $71.50 cloth (ISBN 0-7914-6063-4); $25.95 paper (ISBN 0-7914-6064-9).

Garrett Epps, Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post–Civil War America, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2006. Pp. 352. $27.95 (ISBN 0-8050-7130-X).

N. E. H. Hull, Williamjames Hoffer, and Peter Charles Hoffer, editors, The Abortion Rights Controvery in America: A Legal Reader, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8078-2873-4); $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8078-5535-9).

Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 344. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8078-3086-4); $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8-78-5812-7).

Edward Charles Valandra, Not Without Our Consent: Lakota Resistance to Termination, 1950–59, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 255. $35.00 (ISBN 0-252-02944-5).

Norman Gross, editor, Noble Purposes: Nine Champions of the Rule of Law, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. 152. $26.95 (ISBN 0-8214-1731-2).

Mark E. Steiner, An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. 272. $42.00 (ISBN 978-0-87580-358-6).

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