Some basics
Law in colonial America
Law in revolutionary America
The Constitution
Law in post-constitutional America
Commerce and contract in early 19th century America
Corporations, labor, and property in antebellum America
Slavery in the 19th century
The run-up to the Civil War
Law and the Civil War
Reconstruction and its destruction
Other minorities in 19th century America
Crime and morality in the 19th century
Lawyers and legal education in the 19th century
Judicial reaction to the regulatory state : the Lochner era
World wars and civil liberties
The New Deal
Race : from Brown to affirmative action
The Warren court
Twentieth century common law developments
Gender and the law
The rise (and fall?) of environmental law
Terror, patriotism, and insurrection in the 21st century
The revival of states' rights
Law and politics in the 21st century
The activism of the Roberts Supreme Court
Bibliographic essays.