Chapter 1. Some basics
Chapter 2. Law in colonial America
Chapter 3. Law in revolutionary America
Chapter 4. The Constitution
Chapter 5. Law in post-constitutional America
Chapter 6. Commerce and contract in eEarly 19th century America
Chapter 7. Corporations, labor, and property in antebellum America
Chapter 8. Slavery in the 19th century
Chapter 9. The run-up to the Civil War
Chapter 10. Law and the Civil War
Chapter 11. Reconstruction and its destruction
Chapter 12. Other minorities in 19th century America
Chapter 13. Crime and morality in the 19th century
Chapter 14. Lawyers and legal education in the 19th century
Chapter 15. Judicial reaction to the regulatory state: the Lochner era
Chapter 16. World wars and civil liberties
Chapter 17. The New Deal
Chapter 18. Race: from Brown to affirmative action
Chapter 19. The Warren Court
Chapter 20. Twentieth century common law developments
Chapter 21. Gender and the law
Chapter 22. The rise (and fall?) of environmental law
Chapter 23. Terror, patriotism, and insurrection in the 21st century
Chapter 24. The revival of states' rights
Chapter 25. Law and politics in the 21st century
Chapter 26. The activism of the Roberts Supreme Court
Bibliographic essays.