When the first edition of American Legal History: Case and Materials appeared over twenty-five years ago, American legal history was a nascent scholarly field. Today, the subject of legal history has flooded law, history, and political science departments across American universities. Legalhistory appears in the scholarship of social, economic, political, and diplomatic historians, as well as becoming an integral part of gender, immigration, race, slavery, and labor studies. More than ever before, legal history has become a part of our collective legal culture, as well as ourscholarly world. This text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, from America's colonial origins to the present. Devoting special attention to the interaction of social and legal change, American Legal History: Cases and Materials shows how legal ideasdeveloped in tandem with specific historical events, while also revealing America's rich and unique legal culture. The book also details the realtionship between the evolution of American law and the development of American society, politics, and economy. | American Legal History by Kermit L. Hall, Paperback | Indigo Chapters