Shelf 1 of 8 · The Whole Sweep
General & One-Volume Histories
The whole sweep in a single volume — the standard surveys of the Court’s two-and-a-quarter centuries, and the reference works that map them.
The reading list — 29 books
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.
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