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  • The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff

    The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls Jr.

    by Nancy Bartley ...
    In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention, only to be buried later in local archives.Journalist Nancy Bartley has conducted extensive ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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    A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

    by James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another ... Read more

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  • The Nuremberg Trials

    The Nazis brought to justice

    by Alexander Macdonald ...
    At 10.00 am on 20 November 1945, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, the presiding judge at the first of the Nuremberg Trials, opened proceedings at what he described as a trial that was 'unique in the history of jurisprudence'.What followed were 11 days of accusations and rebuttals that would determine the fate of 21 Nazi leaders and see the indictment of three others in their absence. The charges against ... Read more

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  • Speak Now

    Marriage Equality on Trial

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that stands as the most potent argument for marriage equalitySpeak Now tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex marriage in our most populous state. A trial that interrogated the nature of marriage, the political status of ... Read more

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  • Fragile Settlements

    Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

    by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, Robert Foster ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to ... Read more

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  • Enduring Conviction

    Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice

    by Lorraine K. Bannai ...
    Series series Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
    Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. However, he quickly came to realize that it was more than just a personal choice; it was a matter of basic human rights.After ... Read more

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  • Then Comes Marriage

    United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA

    by Roberta Kaplan ...
    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill ClintonRenowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years—enduring society’s ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • What Happened at the Boston Massacre? US History Lessons for Kids 6th Grade | Children's American History

    by Baby Professor ...
    You may want to protect your child from dark historical truths but you cannot take away their curiosity. Learning about what happened in the past will help a child learner associate events to current times. It will also produce valuable lessons that will shape decisions and actions later on in life. If you think your child can handle What Happened at the Boston Massacre, then get him/her this book ... Read more

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  • Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the ... Read more

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  • Pacific Destiny

    The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country

    by Dale L. Walker ...
    "Walker constructs a compelling narrative that is a string of unusual profiles rather than an analytic account of a major event in American history." - Publishers WeeklyThe Oregon Country!For a century that fabled place, lying somewhere beyond the Rocky Mountains at the farthest reaches of the continent galvanized the American people.Its riches, in furs, timber, fish, and fecund soil for farming, ... Read more

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  • The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law

    by Michael J Saks, Barbara A Spellman ...
    Series Book 1 - Psychology and the Law
    Identifies and evaluates the psychological choices implicit in the rules of evidenceEvidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their ... Read more

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  • The Emotions of Justice

    Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea

    by Jisoo M. Kim ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating against subjects while simultaneously minimizing such discrimination. Jisoo Kim contends that the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD