The federal courts : an essential history / Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N. E. H. Hull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.

Hoffer, Williamjames, author.

Hull, N. E. H., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courts--United States--History.

Courts.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Founding the federal courts, 1776-1789

Open for business, 1789-1801

A new beginning, 1801-1835

The antebellum courts, 1836-1860

The courts in crisis times, 1861-1876

The Gilded Age courts, 1877-1896

Federal courts in the Progressive Era, 1897-1919

Federal courts in the Age of Anxiety, 1921-1929

The courts in the Great Depression, 1929-1940

Federal courts and the "good war, " 1941-1945

The courts and the Cold War, 1946-1954

Federal courts in the Civil Rights era, 1955-1969

Reform and reaction, the federal courts, 1969-1986

Afterword by John S. Cooke and Russell R. Wheeler, with Daniel S. Holt and Jake Kobrick of the Federal Judicial Center History Office.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author. Federal courts

ISBN:

9780199387908

0199387907

OCLC:

925411023