Legal History

How things are divided up or pieced together matters. Half a bridge is of no use at all. Conversely, many things would do more good if they could b...

Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History AssociationThe success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with ...

The Mongol conquest of China in the thirteenth century and Khubilai Khan’s founding of the Yuan dynasty brought together under one government peopl...

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph S...