General & One-Volume Histories

McCloskey, Robert G. The American Supreme Court. 1960.

Schwartz, Bernard. A History of the Supreme Court. 1993.

Cox, Archibald. The Court and the Constitution. 1987.

Currie, David P. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888–1986. 1986.

O’Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics. 1986.

Wagman, Robert J. The Supreme Court: A Citizen’s Guide. 1993.

Schwartz, Bernard. Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases. 1996.

Marcus, Maeva, et al., eds. The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800. 1985–2007.

Warren, Charles. The Supreme Court in United States History. 1922.

Martin, Fenton S., and Robert U. Goehlert. The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography. 1990.

Stephenson, D. Grier. The Supreme Court and the American Republic: An Annotated Bibliography. 1981.

Rutland, George H., ed. Supreme Court of the United States: A Bibliography with Indexes. 2006.

Hall, Kermit L. A Comprehensive Bibliography of American Constitutional and Legal History, 1896–1979. 1984.

Cohen, Morris L., and Sharon Hamby O’Connor. A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1995.

Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker. The Supreme Court Compendium: Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments. 2021.

Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution. 1999.

Barnes, Catherine A. Men of the Supreme Court: Profiles of the Justices. 1978.

Bates, Ernest Sutherland. The Story of the Supreme Court. 1936.

Blandford, Linda A., and Patricia Russell Evans, eds. Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1980: An Index to Opinions Arranged by Justice (2 vols.). 1983.

Carson, Hampton L. The Supreme Court of the United States: Its History, and Its Centennial Celebration, February 4th, 1890. 1891.

Currie, David P. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789–1888. 1985.

Curtis, Charles P., Jr. Lions under the Throne. 1947.

deVergie, Adrienne, and Mary Kate Kell, comps. Location Guide to the Manuscripts of Supreme Court Justices. 1978.

Dunham, Allison, and Philip B. Kurland, eds. Mr. Justice. 1956.

Feather, Augustus G., ed. The Supreme Court of the United States: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Its Members, with a Chronological Order of Succession. 1900.

Campbell, Tom W. Four Score Forgotten Men. 1950.

Barbar, James. The Honorable Eighty-Eight. 1957.

Pederson, William D., and Norman W. Provizer, eds. Great Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Ratings and Case Studies. 1993.

Hall, Timothy L. Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary. 2001.

Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography. List of Works Relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. 1909.

Myers, Gustavus. History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1912.

McCloskey, Robert G. The Modern Supreme Court. 1972.

Paddock, Lisa. Facts about the Supreme Court of the United States. 1996.

Rodell, Fred. Nine Men: A Political History of the Supreme Court from 1790 to 1955. 1955.

Pfeffer, Leo. This Honorable Court: A History of the United States Supreme Court. 1965.

Tomlins, Christopher, ed. The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice. 2005.

Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography. Supplementary List of References on Judicial Legislation by Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court Declaring Laws Unconstitutional, Including Power of Congress to Review These Decisions. 1924.

Hellman, Florence S., comp. The Supreme Court Issue: A Selected List of References. 1937.

Simon, James F. Courting History: A Supreme Court Historian Reflects on His Life and Career. 2025.

Hart, James. The U.S. Supreme Court in American Society: Historical Perspectives. 2025.

Banner, Stuart. The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 2024.

Cushman, Clare. An Illustrated Guide to the Supreme Court. 2024.

Greenhouse, Linda. The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction. 3rd ed., 2023.

Finkelman, Paul, ed. Milestone Documents of the Supreme Court: Exploring the Cases That Shaped America. 2023.

Hudson, David L., Jr. The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book: The History and Issues Explained. 2nd ed., 2023.

Yoo, John, and Robert J. Delahunty. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court. 2023.

Powe, Lucas A., Jr. The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020. 2021.

Moreno, Paul D. How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy. 2022.

Evans, Jocelyn J., and Keith Gaddie. The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces. 2021.

Maveety, Nancy. Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol. 2019.

Hoffer, Peter Charles, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull. The Supreme Court: An Essential History. 2018.

Regan, Richard J. A Constitutional History of the U.S. Supreme Court. 2015.

Ward, Artemus, Christopher Brough, and Robert Arnold. Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Supreme Court. 2015.

Lewis, Thomas Tandy, ed. The U.S. Supreme Court. 2016.

Finkelman, Paul, ed. The Supreme Court: Controversies, Cases, and Characters from John Jay to John Roberts. 2014.

Shally-Jensen, Michael, ed. Defining Documents in American History: Supreme Court Decisions (1803-2017). 2017.

Lively, Donald E., and D. Scott Broyles. Contemporary Supreme Court Cases: Landmark Decisions Since Roe v. Wade. 2016.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Case Against the Supreme Court. 2014.

Millhiser, Ian. Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted. 2015.

Tanenhaus, David S., ed. Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States. 2008.

Savage, David G. Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court. 2010.

Savage, David G. The Supreme Court and Individual Rights. 2009.

Savage, David G. The Supreme Court and the Powers of the American Government. 2009.

Jost, Kenneth. The Supreme Court A to Z. 2012.

Leiter, Richard A., and Roy M. Mersky, eds. Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. 2012.

White, G. Edward. The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges. 2007.

Rosen, Jeffrey. The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America. 2007.

Mannino, Edward F. Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society. 2009.

Cushman, Clare. Courtwatchers: Eyewitness Accounts in Supreme Court History. 2011.

Bader, William D., and Frank J. Williams. Unknown Justices of the United States Supreme Court. 2011.

Frank, Walter M. Making Sense of the Constitution: A Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law. 2012.

Jost, Kenneth. The New York Times on the Supreme Court, 1857-2008. 2008.