Shelf 3 of 7 · Age by Age
Eras & Turning Points
The Court age by age — the Holmes Devise volumes that are the standard history of each era, the New Deal collision, the Warren revolution, and the reference handbooks to individual Courts.
White, G. Edward. The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815–1835 (Holmes Devise; abridged ed.). 1991.
Swisher, Carl B. The Taney Period, 1836–64 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 5). 1974.
Fairman, Charles. Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864–88 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vols. 6–7). 1971.
Fiss, Owen M. Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 8). 1993.
Bickel, Alexander M., and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. The Judiciary and Responsible Government, 1910–1921 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 9). 1984.
Post, Robert C. The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 10). 2024.
Leuchtenburg, William E. The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt. 1995.
Shesol, Jeff. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. 2010.
Powe, Lucas A., Jr. The Warren Court and American Politics. 2000.
Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice. 1998.
Ely, James W., Jr. The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910. 1995.
Casto, William R. The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth. 1995.
Renstrom, Peter G. The Stone Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. 2001.
Stephenson, Donald Grier, Jr. The Waite Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. 2003.
McGinty, Brian. Lincoln and the Court. 2008.
Silver, David M. Lincoln’s Supreme Court. 1956.
Haines, Charles Grove. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1789–1835. 1944.
Goebel, Julius, Jr. Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 1). 1971.
Tushnet, Mark V. The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930–1941 (Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 11). 2022.
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