“…Author Jonathan Scott Holloway illustrates American citizens' willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equal --…”

“…This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Silver Blaze -- The yellow face -- The stock-broker's clerk -- The "Gloria Scott" -- The Musgrave ritual -- The Reigate puzzle -- The crooked man -- The resident patient -- The Greek interpreter -- The naval treaty -- The final problem…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The background of the Taney Court -- The Taney appointment-- Personnel of the Taney Court --The first term and the bridge case -- The realm of finance -- Hard times and contract obligations -- The scope of executive power -- The impact of foreign affairs -- Politics and personnel -- The judges and the circuits -- The expanding work load -- The clerk and the reporter -- Federal courts and the common law -- Fringes of the codification movement -- The control of commerce -- The continuing struggle over commerce -- The developing pattern of the commerce power -- Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction -- The rights of corporations -- Patent rights and free enterprise -- Political questions and judicial power -- Sectionalism and slavery -- Soil for slavery -- The Dred Scott case -- Aftermath of the Scott case -- The Booth cases and northern nullification -- Fugitives from justice -- The widening breach -- The court on the eve of the war -- Property in land -- The wealth of El Dorado -- Lincoln's appointments to the court -- The war and the federal judges -- The blockade and the laws of war -- Wartime curtailment of civil rights -- Other problems from the war -- The end of the Taney regime…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Zettler -- Bibliography of Anne Draffkorn Kilmeris works…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…President (Have pity on the working man) / Randy Newman -- Sweet home Alabama / Lynyrd Skynyrd -- It keeps you running' / The Doobie Brothers -- I've got to use my imagination / Gladys Knight & The Pips -- On the road again / Willie Nelson -- Against the wind / Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band -- Forrest Gump Suite / Alan Silvestri…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett; 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? Susan Manning; 2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman; 3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England Anne-Marie Ford; 4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A tribute to John Ford / Peter Bogdanovich -- John Ford in the twenty-first century / Scott Eyman -- Ford and the romantic tradition / Charles Silver / Michael C -- A bull is reared on Munjoy Hill / Michael C. …”

“…Topics addressed include women's national and international networks in British temperance associations; British anti-slavery societies; Italian crime syndicates; the Istanbul region of the Ottoman Empire; Philippine suffragism, early twentieth-century Portuguese political organizations, and Great War relief efforts in France. …”

“…For his eightieth birthday, his life's work was celebrated in silver on a Tiffany vase given him by admirers throughout the country. …”