History of the Supreme Court of the United States

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With this seventh volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States, Charles Fairman completes his study of the Supreme Court in the post-Civil War period of 1864–88, during the tenure of Morrison R. Waite as Chief Justice. Fairman identifies the most pressing issue during the Reconstruction as the reconciliation between North and South.