Author: Christine Rose
Publisher: CR Publications
Keywords: illustrated, indexes, courthouse
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0929626176
ISBN-13: 9780929626178

Author: Burke Davis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: campaign, courthouse, guilford, cowpens
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-08-19
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0812218329
ISBN-13: 9780812218329

On January 17, 1781, near Cowpens, a drover’s camp on the old Cherokee trading trail in Carolina territory, Continental troops and horsemen under the direction of Daniel Morgan inflicted a stunning defeat on a crack British detachment led by the ruthless Banastre Tarleton, commander of Lord Cornwallis’s cavalry. Although Tarleton fled the battlefield to avoid capture, the American victory effectively destroyed the light corps of the British army in the South. Stung by the loss, Cornwallis ordered a deliberate and dogged chase of the American rebels, a campaign that meandered throug

Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: book, courthouse, county
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0806317973
ISBN-13: 9780806317977

This is a complete overhaul of the 1990 classic, featuring updated coverage of 3,125 county jurisdictions and 1,577 New England towns and independent Virginia cities, details of the 18 Vermont probate districts, 9 Massachusetts districts, and 12 Connecticut judicial districts, plus informative state profiles and cross-references to name changes and extinct towns and counties. Based on her written survey of county courthouses and other jurisdictions, Mrs. Bentley here presents the names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of organization of all county courthouses, and for those that responded

Author: Steve Bogira
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: criminal, courthouse, american, scenes, year, courtroom
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679752064
ISBN-13: 9780679752066

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge’s chambers, the spectators’ gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira’s masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

Author: Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: twenty, firstcentury, lynching, legacy, lawn, confronting, courthouse
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-02-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0807009881
ISBN-13: 9780807009888

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and as Sherrilyn Ifill argues, the effects of this racial trauma continue to resound. Ifill issues a clarion call for the many American communities with histories of racial violence to be proactive in facing this legacy. On the Courthouse Lawn—a landmark book—is a much-needed road map to help communities finally confront lynching’s long shadow by embracing pragmatic reconciliation and reparation efforts."Inspired by South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, civil-rights attorney Ifill offe

Author: Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: twenty, first, century, lynching, legacy, lawn, confronting, courthouse
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2007-02-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807009873
ISBN-13: 9780807009871

Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill’s On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known contemporary consequences, such as the marginalization of political and economic development for black Americans, are equally pernicious. On the Courthouse Lawn investigates how the lynchings implicated average white citizens, some of whom actively participated in the violence, while many o