Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth
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Looks at the contest to construct history, focusing on competing versions of Reconstruction history supported by different factions after the Civil War. The author analyzes how the ultimately dominant version of the history won credence and how that in
Acknowledgments1Introduction12Slavery as an Interpretive Issue in the 39th Reconstruction Congress: The Northern Democrats233Republican Slavery Criticism424The Supreme Court's Official History615Dueling Histories: Charles Fairman and William Crosskey Reconstruct "Original Understanding"966Recipes for "Acceptable" History1327History as an Institutional Resource: Warren Court Debates over Legislative Apportionment1558Constitutional Law as a "Culture of Argument": Toward a Sociology of Constitutional Law1859Conclusion208Notes215Bibliography257Index267
