HeyJaredThe American Legal History Podcast
This podcast will trace the history and evolution of American law from its most ancient roots, through the birth of the common law in medieval England, early colonial and revolutionary American, through the early days of the supreme court, the civil war, through the…
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Episode Thirty-Eight: American Law in the Gilded Age, Part I (opens the original)
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In this the first of three episodes on American law in the Gilded Age, we will examine American law after the Civil War. Specifically in regard to the rise of truely national coporations, the plight of industrial workers and farmes, a mode of opinion writing known as clasical legal thought, and the recrafting of the Fourteenth Amedment by the Supreme Court for the benefit of property and business interests. We will also take a close look at the first important case concerning the Fourteenth Amen
Episode Thirty-Seven: Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, Part II (opens the original)
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In Part II of my interview with Professor Dylan C. Penningroth, author of Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, we will discuss the three categories of rights as they were understood in the 1860's; how and why access to the law of everyday life was so important in the lives of former slaves; the little-understood phenomenon of the rise in Black property ownership in the South after the Civil War; the surprising relationship of African Americans and local courts in the So
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