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Monday, May 15, 2017

Legal History in May 2017 Journal of Southern History

The May 2017 issue of the Journal of Southern History is out, and there is lots here for legal historians.

The lead article is "Reframing the Fathers' Constitution: The Centralized State and Centrality of Slavery in the Confederate Constitutional Order," by Aaron R. Hall (Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley).

Reviews include: 
The Legacy of St. George Tucker: College Professors in Virginia Confront Slavery and the Rights of States, 1771-1897 by Chad Vanderford (review)
Jennifer Oast  
Lincoln, the Law, and Presidential Leadership ed. by Charles M. Hubbard (review)
Tyler V. Johnson     
Uncle Sam's Policemen: The Pursuit of Fugitives across Borders by Katherine Unterman (review)Torrie Hester
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin by Marlene Trestman (review)
Bryant Etheridge

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s by Risa Goluboff (review)
Stuart Schrader 
Lines Were Drawn: Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School ed. by Teena F. Horn, Alan Huffman, and John Griffin Jones (review)
Emma Folwell
(h/t @davidpstein)
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