Elaine Frantz Parsons. Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 400 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2542-3.
Reviewed by Brent Campney (University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley)
Published on H-Law (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Eric Nelson. The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73534-7.
Reviewed by Noah A. Rosenblum (Yale University)
Published on H-Law (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Charles L. Zelden
Of Kingship and Counselors: The Royalist Revolution in Legal History
Elizabeth Dale. Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1972. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. 184 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-739-3.
Reviewed by Barry Latzer (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Published on H-Law (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Manuel Torres Aguilar. Corruption in the Administration of Justice in Colonial Mexico. A Special Case. Madrid: Dykinson, 2015. 170 pp. EUR 15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-84-9085-507-2.
Reviewed by Christoph Rosenmüller (Middle Tennessee State University)
Published on H-Law (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Laurent Corbeil
Lennard J. Davis. Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. 296 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8070-7156-4.
Reviewed by Richard K. Scotch (University of Texas at Dallas)
Published on H-Law (July, 2016)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Edward E. Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014. 498 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-00296-2.
Reviewed by Fatjon Kaja (City College New York)
Published on H-Law (July, 2016)
Commissioned by Charles L. Zelden
The Half Has Now Been Told
Marcia M. Gallo. "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xxiii + 212 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-5664-0; $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5278-9.
Reviewed by Mariah Adin (SUNY Orange)
Published on H-Law (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Felice Batlan. Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945. Studies in Legal History Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Illustrations, xv + 232 pp. $94.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-08453-7; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-44641-0.
Reviewed by Sara Mayeux (University of Pennsylvania)
Published on H-Law (March, 2016)
Commissioned by Charles L. Zelden
Johanna Schoen. Abortion after Roe: Abortion after Legalization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2118-0.
Reviewed by Vicki Toscano (Nova Southeastern University)
Published on H-Law (March, 2016)
Commissioned by Charles L. Zelden
David G. Smith. On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. xiv + 324 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-4032-6.
Reviewed by Joel Fishman (Duquesne University)
Published on H-Law (February, 2016)
Commissioned by Charles L. Zelden
Mariah Adin. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2015. 167 pp. $37.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4408-3372-4.
Reviewed by Molly J. Scanlon (Nova Southeastern University)
Published on H-Law (February, 2016)
Commissioned by Charles L. Zelden
Tameka B. Hobbs. Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida. Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 2015. 288 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6104-7.
Reviewed by Brandon T. Jett (University of Florida)
Published on H-Law (February, 2016)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Lynchings in Florida in the 1940s
Amy Kate Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay. Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Illustrations, tables. 296 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2087-9.
Reviewed by William Carrigan (Rowan University)
Published on H-Law (November, 2015)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
The Victims of Southern Lynching
Louis P. Masur. Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xv + 247 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-021839-3.
Reviewed by Nicole Etcheson (Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History, Ball State University)
Published on H-Law (November, 2015)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Lincoln's Last Speech
Sebastian Sobecki. Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. x + 257 pp. $38.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-04145-8.
Reviewed by Jamie Taylor (Associate Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College)
Published on H-Law (October, 2015)
Commissioned by Michael J. Pfeifer
Vernacular Legal Culture in Early Modern England
