Bøger af Williamjames Hull Hoffer

The second stateera, Hoffer contends, offers valuable insight into how conceptions of American uniqueness contributed to the shape of the federal government.

A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. This title demonstrates just how far the factions had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid.

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 theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed...

Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveller in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination - but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now William James Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.