- American Memory: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
Features the text of documents, journals, and debates of the Continental and Federal Congress from 1774 to 1875.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw
- Amistad Trial@
Learn about Amistad Mutiny, the historical rebellion of slaves aboard the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839. Sites feature historical background, the vessel, the U.S. Supreme Court case, trial records and judgment, news accounts, biographical sketches, the legacy, and movie based on the 19th century rebellion at sea which became one of the milestones in the American history of abolition.
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Amistad_Revolt
- H-Law Discussion Network
Solicits discussion of issues relating to teaching and research in the history of legal traditions, including common law and civil law systems.
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~law
- Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society
Maintains archives, creates historical exhibits, and publishes scholarly books and journals on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
www.sjchs-history.org
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation
From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education, by Karen Wolff.
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.06.x.html
- Women's Legal History Biography Project
Trying to extend the historiography of women as lawyers in the United States.
www.law.stanford.edu/library/wlhbp
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