And Justice for All: Race, Gender, & the Law in U.S. History
Fall 2024 - Professor Jeannette Eileen Jones
Before the Mayflower
- The Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy (1142)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Doctrine of Discovery
- 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)
The Transatlantic Slave
- Queen Anne's Speech in Parliament (1712)
- Regulated Slave Trade Act (1788)
- Stowage of the British slave ship "Brookes" under the Regulated Slave Trade Act (1788)
- An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
- An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807)
- Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves (1807)
Settler Colonialism in the Americas
- Charter of Virginia (1606)
- Plymouth, Massachusetts, Colonial Court Cases (1646-1675)
- Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1663)
- Charter of Delaware (1701)
- Charter of Georgia (1732)
- Treaty of Logstown (1752)
- Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
An Empire of Liberty?
- Royal Proclamation of 1763
- Sugar Act (1764)
- Stamp Act (1765)
- Quartering Act (1765)
- Townshend Revenue Act (1767)
- Tea Act (1773)
- The Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Boston Port Act (1774)
Massachusetts Government Act (1774)
Administration of Justice Act (1774)
Quartering Act (1774) - Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
- Message from the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (1776)
- Constitution of the United States of America (1787)
- Naturalization Act of 1790
Slavery and the Law
- Code Noir (1687)
- Somerset v. Stewart (1772)
- Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Personal Liberty Laws
An Act to Prevent Kidnapping (1820)
An Act Further to Protect Personal Liberty (1843)
Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855) - Ann Williams, Ann Maria Williams, Tobias Williams, & John Williams v. George Miller & George Miller Jr. (1832)
- Opinion of Chief Justice Hornblower on the Fugitive Slave Law (1836)
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Broadside Reacting to the Fugitive Slave Act (1851)
- State of Missouri v. Celia (1855)
Missouri v. Celia - Newspaper Coverage (1855) - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Reconstruction
13th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865)
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
15th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870)
Enforcement Act of 1870
Enforcement Act of 1871
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Who is an American?
- Webinar - The Insular Cases and Contested Citizenship
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
- Immigration Act of 1891
- Foraker Act (1900)
- Insular Cases
De Lima v. Bidwell (1901)
Downes v. Bidwell (1901)
Gonzales v. Williams (1903)
Hawaii v. Mankichi (1903)
Dorr v. United States (1904)
Balzac v. Porto Rico (1922) - Immigration Act of 1917
- Jones Act (1920)
- Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
- Immigration Act of 1924
Women’s Rights and Citizenship
- Report of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at Seneca Falls (1848)
- An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the Right of Suffrage and to Hold Office (1869)
- Comstock Act (1873)
- Woman Suffrage in Territories (1883)
- 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920)
- Hoyt v. Florida (1961)
- Equal Rights Amendment of 1972
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1976)
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)
The Strange Career of the Crows (Jim and Juan)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
- Voting Rights Act (1965)
- Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
A Nation of Immigrants?
- Webinar - Asian Americans Confront U.S. Law and Policy: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Impact on Defining the "Refugee"
- Naturalization Act of 1790
- 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865)
- Page Act (1875)
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
- Ozawa v. United States (1922)
- United States v. Thind (1923)
- Immigration Act 1924
Policing and Incarceration in America
LGBTQ+ Rights and Liberation
- Interim Report on Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government (1950)
- Baker v. Nelson (1972)
- Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)