Paul Finkelman
Paul Finkelman is President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. He is the author or editor of many articles and books, including Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, and A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, and coeditor (with Martin J. Hershock) of The History of Michigan Law.
Editor of…
Terrible Swift Sword
The Legacy of John Brown
More than two centuries after his birth and almost a century and a half after his death, the legendary life and legacy of John Brown go marching on. Variously deemed martyr, madman, monster, terrorist, and saint, he remains one of the most controversial figures in America’s history.…
The History of Michigan Law
The History of Michigan Law offers the first serious survey of Michigan's rich legal past. Michigan legislators have played a leading role in developing modern civil rights law, protecting the environment, and assuring the right to counsel for those accused of crimes.…
Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism
From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson
In 1815 the United States was a proud and confident nation. Its second war with England had come to a successful conclusion, and Americans seemed united as never before. The collapse of the Federalist party left the Jeffersonian Republicans in control of virtually all important governmental offices.…
The Dred Scott Case
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law
In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v.…
In the Shadow of Freedom
The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital
Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there.…
Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s
During the long decade from 1848 to 1861 America was like a train speeding down the track, without an engineer or brakes. The new territories acquired from Mexico had vastly increased the size of the nation, but debate over their status—and more importantly the status of slavery within them—paralyzed the nation.…
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie
A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.…
Contributor to…
Noble Purposes
Nine Champions of the Rule of Law
Throughout the history of the United States, the acts of a few have proved to be turning points in the way our legal system has treated the least of us. The nine individuals whose deeds are recounted have compelling stories, and though they remain unknown to the general public, their commitment to the rule of law has had a lasting impact on our nation.…
- Laura Fair
Member of the department of history at the University of Oregon… - William W. Falk
- Toyin Falola
- Barry J. Faulk
- Joanne Faulkner
ARC postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney… - Carl E. Feather
Freelance writer, photographer, and newspaper lifestyles editor who lives with his wife and son in Kingsville, Ohio, where his parents settled when they migrated from West Virginia in 1956… - Howard M. Federspiel
- David E. W. Fenner
Dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida… - Earline Rae Ferguson
Assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island… - Ed Ferguson
- Cynthia R. Field
Architectural historian and the chair of the Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, associate director of the Office of Physical Plant at the Smithsonian Institution, and coauthor of The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building… - John Fillmore
- Gail Fincham
- Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School… - Pamela May Finnegan
- Linda A. Fisher
Public health physician, a trained documentary editor, and the author of a biography of Joseph Mersman's sister, Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend… - Vardis Fisher
- Shanyn Fiske
Assistant professor of English at Rutgers University at Camden… - Raymond E. Fitch
- Alice Fletcher
- Karen E. Flint
Associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte… - Lorien Foote
- Joshua B. Forrest
Research affiliate at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School for Public and International Affairs, and associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont… - S.L. Frank
- Benjamin Franklin V
Professor of English at the University of South Carolina… - William Frederick
- AnnCorinne Freter
Professor of anthropology at Ohio University and has conducted archaeological research since 1982 in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Ohio River Valley… - Hans Freyer
One of the leading social theorists in Germany—arguably, the most brilliant—after the passing of the incomparable generation of Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and Max Scheler… - Steven Friedman
- James T. Fritsch
- Eugene Fromentin
Master in two arts… - Julie E. Fromer
- Vivien Green Fryd
Associate professor of art history at Vanderbilt University… - Noboru Fujiwara
- Katsuyoshi Fukui
- Frank Furedi
In the Chair at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury…
