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  • Clio Among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Clio Among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities

    "A learned, lively, and witty review of the history of historical writing... A deeply insightful analysis of the never-ending challenge that historians face in getting their story right." - Richard R. Beeman, John Welsh Centennial Professor of History Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania "I cannot...
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  • Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

    Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly from his hardscrabble New Hampshire origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the...
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  • For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History

    In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early American history. Over the course of five days in September 1787, five men serving...
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  • Great NY Conspiracy of 1741 by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Great NY Conspiracy of 1741

    Three and a half decades before the city of New York witnessed the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumors of a massive conspiracy among the city's slaves spread panic throughout the colony. On the testimony...
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  • John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850 by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850

    Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War.Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against slavery, effectively forbidding Congress from addressing the antislavery issue until it was rescinded in...
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  • Litigation Nation: A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Litigation Nation: A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America

    This book charts the history of civil litigation in America from the 17th century to today, using key cases that illustrate the central theme of lawsuits in different periods of U.S. history, and enabling readers to explore and understand key questions in American life...
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  • Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin

    Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today. He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a...
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  • Reading Law Forward: The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Reading Law Forward: The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

    In the current legal climate where "everyone is an originalist," conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, "reading the law forward"--what...
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  • Salem Witchcraft Trials by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Salem Witchcraft Trials

    In late seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan was brought into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbors turned against neighbors and children against parents with accusations of witchcraft, and nineteen people were hanged for...
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  • Seward's Law: Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Seward's Law: Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery

    In Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights--a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had...
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  • The Brave New World: A History of Early America by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Brave New World: A History of Early America

    A lively synthesis of early American history, now in its third edition.The Brave New World covers the entire span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans landed on North American shores to the Revolutionary War. With its exploration of the places and...
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  • The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession

    The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political...
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  • The Federal Courts: An Essential History by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Federal Courts: An Essential History

    There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale...
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  • The Historiansa Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Historiansa Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time

    Hoffer argues for a new methodological philosophy of history that mitigates fallibility and paradox How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty what life was...
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  • The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second Edition by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second Edition

    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians--including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series--have updated the most...
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  • The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second Edition by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second Edition

    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians--including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series--have updated the most...
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  • The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr

    Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. And when he turned his attention to entrepreneurial activities on...
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  • Zombie History: Lies about Our Past That Refuse to Die by Hoffer, Peter Charles
    Peter Charles Hoffer

    Zombie History: Lies about Our Past That Refuse to Die

    Author: Peter Charles HofferISBN-10: 047205452XISBN-13: 9780472054527Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2020Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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