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Bakken, Gordon M. The Development of Law on the Rocky Mountain Frontier: Civil Law and Society, 1850-1912 (1983)
Bancoft, Hubert. Popular Tribunals (1887)
Bartlett, Irving H. Daniel Webster (1978)
Bascch, Norma. In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage and Property in Nineteenth-century New York (1982)
Beveridge, Albert J. The Life of John Marshall (4 volumes, 1916-19)
Bloomfield, Maxwell. American Lawyers in a Changing Society, 1776- 1876 (1976)
Bodenhamer, David J and Ely, James W. Jr., eds. Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South (1984)
Brown, Richard Maxwell. No Duty To Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society (1991)
Campbell, James M. Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia (2008)
Cary, Lorin Lee, " 'The Planters Suffer Little or Nothing': North Carolina Compensations for Executed Slaves, 1748-1772," Science and Society (1976)
Chadbourn, James Harmon. Lynching and the Law (1933)
Chapin, Bradley. The American Law of Treason: Revolutionary and Early National Origins (1964)
Chase, Anthony. Laws and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System (1997)
Coleman, Peter J. Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt and Bankruptcy,1607-1900 (1974)
Cook, Charles M. The American Codification Movement: A Study of Ante-bellum Legal Reform (1981)
Dain, Norman. Concepts of Insanity in the United States, 1789-1865 (1964)
Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law and Society in Connecticut, 1639- 1789 (1995)
Dazell, George W. Benefit of Clergy in America and Related Matters (1955)
Ellis, Mark P. Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great plains (2008)
Ellsworth, Frank. Law on the Midway: The Founding of the University of Chicago Law School (1977)
Fisher, George. Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America (2003)
Flanigan, Daniel. The Criminal Law of Slavery and Freedom, 1800- 1868 (1973)
Friedman, Lawrence. A History of American law (1985)
Frost, Richard. The Mooney Case (1968)
Gardner, Rufus. The Courthouse Tragedy (1962)
Gawalt, Gerald W. The Promise of Power: The Emergence of the Legal Profession in Massachusetts, 1760-1840 (1979)
Gawalt, Gerard W. The New High Priests: Lawyers in Post Civil War America (1984)
Goebel, Julius. Law Enforcement in Colonial New York, 1664-1776: A Study in Criminal Procedure (1944)
Graham, Fred. The Due Process Revolution: The Warren Court's Impact on Criminal Law (1970)
Guice, John D. W. The Rocky Mountain Bench: The Territorial Supreme Courts of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, 1861- 1890 (1972)
Gusfield, Joseph. Symbolic Crusade (1963)
Hall, Kermit. The Magic Mirror: Law in American History (1989)
Hampton, Wayne. Guerrilla Minstrels: John Lennon, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan (1986)
Harman, William. Hell on the Border: He Hanged 88 Men (1992)
Harring, Sodney L. Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and the United States Law in the Nineteenth Century (1994)
Haskins, George. Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Tradition and Design (1960)
Haywood, C. Robert. Cowtown Lawyers: Dodge City and Its Attorneys, 1870-1888 (1988)
Henderson, Dwight. Congress, Courts and Criminals: The Development of the Federal Criminal Law, 1801-1829 (1989)
Herold, David E. The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators, (1974)
Herold, David E. The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President (1972)
Hershkowitz, Leo and Milton M. Klein eds. Courts and Law in Early New York: Selected Essays (1978)
Hoffer, Peter. Law and People in Colonial America (1992)
Horwita, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977)
Howard, Warren. American Slaves and the Federal Law, 1837-1862 (1963)
Ingalls, Robert. Urban Vigilantes in the New South: Tampa, 1882- 1912. (1992)
Ireland, Robert M. The County Courts in Antebellum Kentucky (1972)
Irons, Peter. Justice at War: The Story of Japanese-American Internment Cases (1983)
Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court (1999)
Jensen, Richard J. Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth (1992)
Jones, John Paul. Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: the Case Reopened (19950
Kaczorowski, Robert. The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: the Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (1985)
Kawashima, Yasuhide. Puritan Justice and the Indian: White Man's Law in Massachusetts, 1630-1763 (1986)
Konig, David. Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 (1979)
Laurent, Francis W. The Business of a Trial Court: One Hundred Years of Cases (1959)
Levy, Leonard W. and Douglas Jones. Jim Crow in Boston: The Origins of Separate but Equal Doctrine (1974)
Lewis, Anthony. Gideon's Trumpet (1964)
Maeder, Thomas. Crime and Madness: The Origins and Evolution of the Insanity Defense (1985)
Mitgang, Herbert. The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury (1963)(1996)
Mohr, James C. Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth Century America (1993)
Mueller, G.O. Crime, Law and the Scholars: A History of Scholarship in American Criminal Law, (1969)
Murchison, Kenneth. M. Federal Criminal Law Doctrines: The Forgotten Influence of National Prohibition (1994)
Nelson, Margaret V. A Study of Judicial Review in Virginia, 1789- 1928 (1947)
Nelson, William. The Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society 1760-1830 (1975)
Nelson, W.E. Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County Massachusetts, 1725-1825, (1981)
Pestrillo, Ronald J. Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America (2000)
Rankin, Hugh. Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia (1965)
Reagan, Leslie. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine and the Law 1867-1973 (1997)
Redlich, Josef. The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law Schools (1914)
Reid, John. A Law of Blood: The Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation (1970)
Reinsch, Paul S. English Common Law in the Early American Colonies (1977)
Ritz, Wilfred J. Rewriting the History of the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1990)
Roeber A. G. Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1819 (1981)
Rosenberg, Charles. The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau (1968)
Rovere, Richard. The Magnificent Shysters (1947)
Scott, Arthur P. Criminal Law in Colonial Virginia (1930)
Semmes, Raphael. Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland (1996)
Shirley, G. Law West of Fort Smith: A History of Frontier Justice in the Indian Territory, 1834-1896 (1957)
Schwarz, Philip. Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia 1705-1865 (1988)
Scott, Arthur. Criminal Law in Colonial Virginia (1930)
Smith, James Morton. Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Acts and American Civil Liberties (1956)
Steinberg, Allen. The Transformation of Criminal Justice in Philadelphia, 1800-1880 (1989)
Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel. Federal Courts in the Early Republic Kentucky, 1789-1816 (1978)
Washburn, Wilcomb E. The Assault on Indian Tribalism: The General Allotment Law (Dawes Act) of 1887 (1975)
Woldman, Albert. Lawyer Lincoln (1936)(1971)
Wunder, John R. Inferior Courts, Superior Courts: A History of the Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889 (1979)
Younger, Richard D. The People's Panel: The Grand Jury in the United States, 1643-1941 (1963)
Alschular, Albert. "Plea Bargaining and Its History," Law and Society Review 13 (1978)
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Bloomfield, Maxwell. "William Sampson and the Codifiers: The Roots of American Legal Reform, 1829-1830," 11 Am. J. Legal Hist. 234 (1967)
Bodenhamer, David. "The Democratic Impulse and Legal Change in the Age of Jackson: The Example of Criminal Justice in Antebellum Indiana," Historian 45 (1983)
Bowers, Carol L. "School Bells and Winchesters: The Sad Saga of Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell," Annals of Wyoming 73 (2001)
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Brown, Elizabeth G. "The Law School of the University of Michigan, 1859-1959," 38 Mich. St. Bar J. 16 (August 1959)
Brown, Elizabeth G. "Legal Systems in Conflict: Orleans Territory, 1804-1812," 1 Am J. Legal Hist. 35 (1957)
Caplan, Gerald. "Reflections on the Nationalization of Crime, 1964- 1968," Law and the Social Order, 3 (1973): 583-635.
Chaplan, Bradley. "Felony Law Reform in the Early Republic," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113 (1989)
Charles, Robert B. "Legal Education in the Late Nineteenth Century, Through the Eyes of Theodore Roosevelt," The American Journal of Legal History 37 (1993)
Cozine, R. Kirkland. The Emergence of Written Appellate Briefs in the Nineteenth Century United States," The American Journal of Legal History 37 (1993)
Crail-Rugotzke, Donna. "A Matter of Guilt: The Treatment of Hispanic Inmates by New Mexico Courts and the New Mexico Territorial Prison, 1890-1912," New Mexico Historical Review 74 (1999)
Douglas, John. "Between Pettifoggers and Professionals: Pleaders and Practitioners and the Beginnings of the Legal Profession in Colonial Maryland, 1634-1731," The American Journal of Legal History 39 (1995)
Fede, Andrew. "Legitimized Violent Slave Abuse in the American South, 1619-1835: A Case Study of Law and Social Change in Six Southern States," The American Journal of Legal History 29 (1985)
Friedman, Lawrence M. "Plea Bargaining in Historical Perspective," 13 Law & Society Rev. 247 (1979)
Garlock, Peter D. "'Wayward' Children and the Law, 1820-1900: The Genesis of the Status Offense Jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court," 13 Ga. L. Rev. 341 (1979)
Gaskins, Richard. "Changes in the Criminal Law in Eighteenth- Century Connecticut," American Journal of Legal history, 25 (1981)
Hall, Kermit L. "The Judiciary on Trial: Sate Constitutional Reform and the Rise of an Elected Judiciary, 1846-1860, " 45 The Historian 337 (1983)
Hall, Livingston. "The Substantive Law of Crimes, 1887-1936," Harvard Law Review, 40 (1931)
Haller, M.H. "Plea Bargaining: The 19th Century Context," Law and Society Review 13 (1979)
Harring, Sidney. "Crazy Snake and the Creek Struggle for Sovereignty: The Native American Legal Culture and American Law," The American Journal of Legal History 34 (1990)
Heiter, Paul. "How Wild Was Arizona? An Examination of Pima County's Criminal Court, 1882-1909" Western Legal History 12 (1999)
Hobson, Wayne K. "Symbol of the New Profession: Emergence of the Large Law Firm, 1870-1915," in Gerard W. Gawalt, ed., The New High Priests: Lawyers in Post Civil War America (1984)
Ireland, Robert. "Insanity and the Unwritten Law," The American Journal of Legal History 32 (1988)
Ireland, Robert. "Privately Funded Prosecution of Crime in the Nineteenth Century United States," The American Journal of Legal History, 39 (1995)
Kaplan, John. "American Merchandising and the Guilty plea: Replacing the Bazaar with the Department Store," American Journal of Criminal Law 5 (1977)
Keedy, Edwin. "History of the Pennsylvania Statute Creating Degrees of Murder," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 97 (1949)
Kimball, Edward L. "Criminal Cases in a State Appellate Court: Wisconsin, 1839-1959," 9 Am. J. Legal Hist. 95 (1965)
Kizer, Benjamin. "The Pioneer Lawyer," The Pacific Northwest, (1962)
Klafter, Craig Evan. "The Influence of Vocational Law Schools on the Origins of American Legal Thought," The American Journal of Legal History 37 (1993)
Kommers, Donald. "The Emergence of Law and Justice in the Pre- Territorial Wisconsin," American Journal of Legal History, 8 (1964)
Konig, David. "`Dale's Law' and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia," American Journal of Legal History 26 (1982)
Langbein, John. "Criminal Law Before the Lawyers," University of Chicago Law Review 45 (1976)
Langbein, John. "Understanding the Short History of Plea Bargaining," Law and Society Review, 13 (1979)
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McLoughlin, William G. "The Murder Trial of the Reverend Evan Jones, Baptist Missionary to the Cherokee in North Carolina, 1833," The North Carolina Historical Review. Vol. 62 no. 2 (April 1985)
Malone, Wex. "The Genesis of Wrongful Death," Stanford Law Review, 17 (1965)
Nash, A.E. Keir. "The Texas Supreme Court and the Trial Rights of Blacks, 1845-1860," Journal of American History, 63 (1971)
Nash, Gary. "The Philadelphia Bench and Bar, 1800-1861," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 7 (1965)
Nelson, William. "Emerging Notions of Modern Criminal Law in the Revolutionary Era: An Historical Perspective," New York University Law Review, 42 (1967)
Nemeth, Charles P. "Character Evidence in Rape Trials in Nineteenth Century New York: Chastity and the Admissability of Specific Acts," Women's Rights Law Reporter 6 (1980)
Nunis, D.B. Jr. "Historical Studies in United States Legal History, 1950-1959: A Bibliography of Articles Published in Scholarly Non-Law Journals," Journal of Legal History, 7 (1963)
Oaks, Robert. "`Things Fearful to Name': Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth Century New England," Journal of Social History 12 (1978)
O'Connor, John. "Legal Reform in the Early Republic: The New Jersey Experience," American Journal of Legal History 22 (1978)
Preyer, Kathryn. "Crime and the Criminal law and Reform in Post- Revolutionary Virginia," Law and History Review 1 (1983)
Sawyer, Jeffrey. "`Benefit of Clergy' in Maryland and Virginia," American Journal of Legal History 33 (1990)
Scheiber, Harry and Jane Scheiber. "Constitutional Liberty in World War II: Army Rule and Martial Law in Hawaii, 1941-1946," Western legal History 3 (1990)
Schwartz, Philip. "Forging the Shackles: The Development of Virginia's Criminal Code for Slaves," in David Bodenhamer and James Ely, Jr. eds. Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South (1984)
Spindel, Donna J. "The Administration of Criminal Justice in North Carolina, 1720-1740," 25 Am. J. Legal Hist. 141 (1982)
Springer, James Warren. "American Indians and the Law of Real Property in Colonial New England," The American Journal of Legal History 30 (1986)
Tighe, Janet A. "Francis Wharton and the Nineteenth Century Insanity Defense: The Origins of a Reform Tradition," 27 Am. J. Legal Hist. 223 (1983)
Umphrey, Martha Merrill. "The Dialogics of Legal Meaning: Spectacular Trials, The Unwritten Law, And Narratives of Criminal Responsibility," Law & Society Review 33 (1999)
Wunder, John. "Law and the Chinese on the Southwest Frontier, 1850s-1902," Western Legal History 2 (1989)
Wunder, John. "American Law and Order Comes to Mississippi Territory: The Making of the Sargent's Code," Journal of Mississippi History 38 (1976)