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Because of the relative paucity of great works of American legal history (aside from Supreme Court history, long the focus of American legal historians, to the detriment of other equally significant areas of legal history scholarship), generations of lawyers have learned their legal history by reading biographies of great judges and lawyers. Biography can also play an important role in the formation of professional values by providing role models - and models of what to avoid.
One good place to start is with a biography of Thurgood Marshall, arguably America’s single most influential lawyer, who fought racial discrimination in the South as head of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, argued and won Brown v. Board of Education before the United States Supreme Court, and then served on the Court for several tumultuous decades. The definitive biography of Marshall has not yet been written. Two useful and interesting works, both valuable, are Carl T. Rowan’s Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall (1993) and Juan Williams’ Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998).
One might also read some of the excellent biographies of America’s judicial giants: Jean Edward Smith’s John Marshall, Definer of a Nation (1996); G. Edward White’s Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self (1993); Gerald Gunther’s Learned Hand (1994); Andrew L. Kaufman’s Cardozo (1998); or Ed Cray’s Chief Justice (1997), about the life and career of Earl Warren.
There are many more excellent judicial biographies - more than one could list. One book deserving particular focus is Jack Bass’s Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., and the South’s Fight Over Civil Rights (1993), which can provide students with a better understanding of the vast powers and influence Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account. Choose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Shibboleth/Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institution’s website, please contact your librarian or administrator. Enter your library card number to sign in. If you cannot sign in, please contact your librarian. Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways: Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. If you see ‘Sign in through society site’ in the sign in pane within a journal: If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or p Documents selected and interpreted by Scholars of women's history in the United States have devoted much attention to ways in which the experience of war has influenced gender ideology and expanded women's assigned roles. Because warfare inevitably leads to losses in the male-dominated workforce, while simultaneously creating new demands for non-combatant labor, women are often called upon to shoulder new and unfamiliar responsibilities. "Wartime presents many perplexities," political theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain has observed, "for women often engage in tasks recently denied them as they enter occupations previously closed to them and take risks from which they have been protected."[1] Perhaps the best known example of this dynamic occurred during World War II, when the celebrated icon Rosie the Riveter helped to legitimize women war workers who took industrial jobs previously reserved for men. But even in regard to the Civil War, which witnessed less far-reaching challenges to the gendered order, historians have tended to focus on women who stepped outside their traditional sphere to assume new duties and embrace new opportunities. The most literal examples of such wartime transformations are the cases of women disguising themselves as boys or young men and enlisting in the military.[2] Less dramatically norm-defying are the several thousand women who entered military hospitals as nurses to care for the sick and wounded.[3] The voluntary activities of women who remained at home have also attracted much interest from scholars. On the Union side, women established patriotic ladies' aid societies, organized sewing circles, held massive fundraising efforts, and even ventured into conque Historical News
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Spring 2023