Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part

This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.

America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolution

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.