And Justice for All: Race, Gender, & the Law in U.S. History
Fall 2023 - Professor Katrina Jagodinsky
Finding the Law
- Articles of Peace and Amity (1666)
- List of Freedmen who have been Murdered in the state of Texas since the close of the Rebellion (1866)
- U.S. Freedman's Bank Records, Registers of Signatures of Depositors, New York (1870)
- In the Matter of the Application of Agnes Smith for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1921)
Law of Empire
- The Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy (1142)
- The Bull Inter Caetera (1493)
- Christopher Columbus to Raphael Sanchez (1493)
- Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
- The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, the First Voyage (1503)
- El Requerimiento (1513)
- Proclamation of King Ferdinand of Spain (1514)
- A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
American Independence & Federal Indian Law
- Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Naturalization Act of 1790
- Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
- An Act to enable the President of the United States to take possession of the territories ceded by France to the United States (1803)
- An Act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clark, and their companions (1807)
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia (1831)
- Cherokee Removal Order (1838)
The Modern Era of Federal Indian Law
- Indian Appropriations Act of 1871
- Indian Major Crimes Act (1885)
- Dawes Act (1887)
- Ex Parte Crow Dog (1883)
- United States v. Kagama (1886)
- Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
- Public Law 280 (1953)
- Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1975)
- Albert Wiley v. Moses Keokuk (1869)
- In the Matter of the Application of Standing Bear et al. for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1879)
Judge Dundy's Opinion in United States, ex rel. Standing Bear, v. George Crook (1879) - John Heo v. Robert H. Milroy (1880)
- Elk v. Wilkins (1884)
- Ex Parte Crow Dog (1883)
- Indian Major Crimes Act (1885)
- United States v. Kagama (1886)
- Meriam Report: General Summary of Findings and Recommendations (1928)
- Constitution And By-Laws of the Sac and Fox Tribe of Missouri (1937)
- Indian Child Welfare Act (1978)
- American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978)
- Under the Rule of Thumb: Battered Women and the Administration of Justice (1982)
- Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (2019)
Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act Fact Sheet (2022) - Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
- Savanna's Act (2018)
U.S. Constitutionalism & Native American Sovereignty
- Webinar - U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty
- McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)
- Indian Major Crimes Act (1885)
- Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report (2022)
- Haaland v. Brackeen (2023)
- Brief of Amici Curiae American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians In Support of Federal and Tribal Parties (2022)
- Indian Child Welfare Act (1978)
- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (2013)
Inventing Race & Slavery
- Emmanuel Downing to John Winthrop (1645)
- Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
- Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia Colony (1642-1705)
Legal Challenges to Slavery
- I Did Not Want to Go: An Enslaved Woman's Leap into the Capital's Conscience (2015)
- Ann Williams, Ann Maria Williams, Tobias Williams, & John Williams v. George Miller & George Miller Jr. (1832)
- The Timing of Queen v. Hepburn: An exploration of African American Networks in the Early Republic (2015)
- Mima Queen & Louisa Queen v. John Hepburn (1813)
- Juan Domingo Lopez v. Francis Phillips (1770)
- Somerset v. Stewart (1772)
- James Ash v. William H. Williams (1843)
- Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
- In the Matter of the Petition of John Jones, alias John Cook, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1857)
- In the Matter of the Petition of Elihu Schooner for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1858)
- In the Matter of the Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus by Elizabeth Bird (1867)
Reconstructing Race: From Black Codes to Jim Crow
- Slaves and Free Negroes (1849)
- Of Colored Persons (1871)
- White Person Marrying a Negro or Celebrating Such Marriage (1873)
- Elective Franchise and Qualifications for Office (1887)
- Of Masters and Apprentices (1887)
- Elective Franchise and Qualifications for Office (1902)
- Separate schools for white and colored (1904)
- An Act to provide for designation by cities and towns of segregation districts for residence of white and colored persons (1912)
- Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865)
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)
15th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870) - Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Legacies of Reconstruction Amendments
- 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1864)
- Peonage Act of 1867
- Colorado Repeal Exception To Constitutional Ban On Slavery (2018)
- Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
- Webinar - Affirmative Action's Origins and Legacies
- Executive Order 11246 - Equal Employment Opportunity (1965)
- Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard (2023)
The Legacies of Reconstruction
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)
- Webinar - Equal Protection, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the 14th Amendment
Women's Liberties
- Martin v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1805)
- New Jersey Constitutional Franchise Provision (1776)
- New Jersey Franchise Statute (1797)
- New Jersey Disfranchisement Statute (1807)
- In the Matter of the Petition of William M. Parkinson for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1852)
- In the Matter of the Application of Mary Marshall, mother of William Marshall an Infant, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1886)
- In the Matter of the Application of Alice McKay for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for the Body of Mary McKay (1891)
- 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920)
Restricting Sexuality
- Abortion deemed manslaughter in the second degree (1830)
- An Act to Amend "An Act Relative to Crime and Punishment" (1835)
- Miscarriage (1867)
- Nebraska Abortion Statute (1873)
- Nebraska Abortion Statute (1929)
- Comstock Act (1873)
- Brief of Historians of Marriage and the American Historical Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners (2015)
- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- Hyde Amendment (1976)
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
- Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
- Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)
- Defense of Marriage Act (1996)
- Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
- Brief of Historians of Marriage and the American Historical Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners (2015)
A Nation of Immigrants?
- Naturalization Act of 1790
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Naturalization Act of 1870
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
- Ozawa v. United States (1922)
- United States v. Thind (1923)
Exclusion & Inclusion
- Page Act (1875)
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- Burlingame-Seward Treaty (1886)
- In the Matter of the Application of Yu Gum and Yu Hung for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1886)
- In the Matter of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus for the Person of Nan Oy (1888)
- In the Matter of the Application of Andrew J. Sawyer for Writ of Habeas Corpus for Chin Tu Ling, Lee Shun, and Look Fung (1898)
- Expatriation Act (1907)
- Mann Act (1910)
- In the Matter of the Petition of Ham Hung Wah by Tom Sing for Writ of Habeas Corpus (1911)
- Immigration Act of 1917
- In the Matter of the Petition of Kichitaro Kubota and Ise Kubota for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (1920)
- Ozawa v. United States (1922)
- Cable Act (1922)
- Immigration Act of 1924
- Executive Order 9066 - Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas (1942)
- Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- War Brides Act (1945)
- Mendez v. Westminster (1947)
- Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)