Reading List - Dr. Rogers
(Constitutional / Supreme Court History The New Nation, The Civil War, The Progressive Era, & The New Deal)
-- Supreme Court Cases & Constitutional Issues -[Slavery]
• Somerset v. Stewart (1772)
• Article IV, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution
• Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
• North Carolina v. Mann (1830)
• Commonwealth v. Aves (1836)
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
• Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
[Foundations of the New Nation]
• Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• President Jackson’s veto of the Bank Bill, 1832
• Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
• Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
[The Long Civil Rights Movement (Education)]
• Roberts v. City of Boston (1849) [Massachusetts Supreme Court]
• Civil Rights Act (1866)
• Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
• Civil Rights Cases (1883)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Weeks v. United States (1914)
• Moore v. Dempsey (1923)
• Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)
• Shelly v. Kraemer (1948)
• Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. (1948)
• Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954-55) [Brown I and Brown II]
• Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke (1978)
[Police Power, Due Process, and Contract]
• Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897)
• Lochner v. New York (1905)
• Muller v. Oregon (1908)
• West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
Reading List - Dr. Rogers
(Legal/Constitutional/Supreme Court History)
[Drug Laws / Constitutional Issues]
• Food and Drug Act (1906)
• Harrison Narcotics Act (1914)
• Mcginis Et Al. V. People Of The State Of California (1918)
• United States v. Doremus (1919)
• Webb, et. al. v. United States (1919)
• Jin Fuey Moy v. United States (1920)
• Linder v. United States (1925)
• Casey v. United States (1928)
• Nigro v. United States (1928)
• Olmstead v. United States (1928)
• Sonzinsky v. United States (1937)
• Marihuana Tax Act (1937)
-- Related Books -The New Nation / Antebellum Courts
• G. Edward White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835
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Maurice G. Baxter, Daniel Webster and the Supreme Court
Reconstruction and the New Amendments
• Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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Robin West, Progressive Constitutionalism: Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amendment
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R. Labbe & J. Laurie, The Slaughterhouse Cases
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Richard Cortner, The Iron Horse and the Constitution: The Railroads and the Transformation of the
Fourteenth Amendment
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Charles A. Lofgren, The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation
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Howard Gillman, The Constitution Besieged: The Rise & Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers
Jurisprudence
Reform and Reaction: Progressivism
• Robert Weibe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920
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Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America,
1870-1920
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Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State 1877-1917
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Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
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Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.
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Stephen Wood, Constitutional Politics in the Progressive Era: Child Labor and the Law
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William Ross, A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives and Labor Unions Confront the Courts
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Edward Purcell, Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution
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Robert Harrison, Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State
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Beatrix Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: the Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
Reading List - Dr. Rogers
(Legal/Constitutional/Supreme Court History)
Drug Control Measures (1875-1937)
• David F. Musto, The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control
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Richard J. Bonnie & Charles H. Whitebread II, “The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An
Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition,” Virginia Law Review, Vol. 56,
October, 1970, No. 6
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Richard J. Bonnie & Charles H. Whitebread II, The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana
Prohibition in the United States, reprint Ed., (New York: The Lindesmith Center, 1999).
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Joseph F. Spillane, “The Road to the Harrison Narcotics Act: Drugs and Their Control, 1875-1918,”
in Jonathon Erlen and Joseph F. Spillane, eds., Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and
Practice (New York, 2004), 1-24
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Joseph F. Spillane, “Building a Drug Control Regime, 1919-1930,” in Jonathon Erlen and Joseph F.
Spillane, eds., Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice (New York, 2004), 25-60
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Mara L. Keire, For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the
United States, 1890—1933
The Depression and the New Deal
• Alan Brinkley, The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
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Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
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David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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Linda Gordon, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare 1890-1935
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David E. Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the
Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
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William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940
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Barry Cushman, Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution
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Morton Horowitz, The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
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John B. Kirby, Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race
Education and Civil Rights
• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's
Struggle for Equality
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Howard Ball, The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
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Robert Weisbrot, Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement
General – Supreme Court
• David O’Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics
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Kermit Hall and Peter Karsten, The Magic Mirror: Law in American Society (2008)