The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light. Few legal cases in American history are as ri
George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin. From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory
Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War. Modern readers of
Blackstone in America explores the creative process of transplantation - the way in which American legislators and judges refashioned the English common law inh
In the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, i
