In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to take up the study of southern legal history.
Contributors to Signposts explore a wide range of subjects related to southern constitutional and legal thought, including real and personal property, civil rights, higher education, gender, secession, reapportionment, prohibition, lynching, legal institutions such as the grand jury, and conflicts between bench and bar. A number of the essayists are concerned with transatlantic connections to southern law and with marginalized groups such as women and native peoples. Taken together, the essays in Signposts show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.
Contributors: Alfred L. Brophy, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Laura F. Edwards, James W. Ely Jr., Tim Alan Garrison, Sally E. Hadden, Roman J. Hoyos, Thomas N. Ingersoll, Jessica K. Lowe, Patricia Hagler Minter, Cynthia Nicoletti, Susan Richbourg Parker, Christopher W. Schmidt, Jennifer M. Spear, Christopher R. Waldrep, Peter Wallenstein, Charles L. Zelden.
Show moreIn Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to take up the study of southern legal history.
Contributors to Signposts explore a wide range of subjects related to southern constitutional and legal thought, including real and personal property, civil rights, higher education, gender, secession, reapportionment, prohibition, lynching, legal institutions such as the grand jury, and conflicts between bench and bar. A number of the essayists are concerned with transatlantic connections to southern law and with marginalized groups such as women and native peoples. Taken together, the essays in Signposts show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.
Contributors: Alfred L. Brophy, Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Laura F. Edwards, James W. Ely Jr., Tim Alan Garrison, Sally E. Hadden, Roman J. Hoyos, Thomas N. Ingersoll, Jessica K. Lowe, Patricia Hagler Minter, Cynthia Nicoletti, Susan Richbourg Parker, Christopher W. Schmidt, Jennifer M. Spear, Christopher R. Waldrep, Peter Wallenstein, Charles L. Zelden.
Show moreSally E. Hadden (Editor)
SALLY E. HADDEN, an associate professor of history at Western
Michigan University, is the author of Slave Patrols: Law and
Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas and coeditor ofThe Blackwell
Companion to American Legal History.
Patricia Hagler Minter (Editor)
PATRICIA HAGLER MINTER, associate professor of history at Western
Kentucky University is a coauthor of the 2003 edition of Out of
Many Lives, Many Stories: Biographies in American History.
Constitutional and legal history converge comfortably in this
welcome rethinking of the southern legal heritage. Signposts is a
milestone in the emergence of a more encompassing vision of the
legal and constitutional history of the South.
*author of The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United
States Supreme Court, 1941-\–1953*
This collection is truly first rate, offering essays that plow new
ground or offer fresh perspectives on more familiar topics. While
the individual essays are more than worth the price of admission,
together they offer rich insights into the ways law shaped and was
shaped by southern society. Hadden and Minter have done an enormous
service to the field of legal history by bringing this outstanding
group of authors together in a volume that underscores the vitality
of southern legal history and sets an ambitious agenda for future
scholarship.
*coeditor of Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the
Nineteenth-Century South*
This exciting anthology promises to stir renewed interest in
southern legal history, raising new questions, refocusing old
lenses, and shaping research agendas for decades to come.
*author of The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used
Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights*
This engaging collection of essays demonstrates just how diverse
and lively the field of southern legal history has become.
Signposts, from its savvy introduction to its closing essay,
reminds us of myriad ways, some familiar and many surprising, that
southerners used the law to define themselves and their region.
This collection is destined to be a foundation for the next
generation of southern legal history.
*author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and
Memory*
Professors Hadden and Minter have given us a rich smorgasbord of
essays on legal history. . . . Rare would be the person who failed
to find something of value from this collection of seventeen
essays.
*Law and Politics Review*
[Signposts] explore[s] everything from civil rights, succession,
reapportionment, prohibition, legal institutions and their
evolution, and more, and they provide much food for thought in
social issues areas. The result is a scholarly collection
recommended for any library strong in regional American history in
general and Southern history and culture in particular.
*Midwest Book Review*
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