Kivelson places Russian witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century in the legal, social, and religious context of eraly modern Russi—and in comparison with witch hunts of Western Europe and elsewhere.

Looking to the trials of infamous murderers in late imperial Russia to reveal its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations.

Tova Wang explains how, across the twentieth century, the issue of access to the ballot was transformed from a largely practical matter of electoral advantage into an ideological difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties.

Wolfgang P. Müller tells the story of how abortion came to be criminalized in the West. As he shows, criminalization as a distinct phenomenon and abortion as a self-standing criminal category developed in tandem with each other.

Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers persuaded the French state to enact exclusionary legislation banning naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality.

In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law.

Elucidating the debate between constitutional originalism and the "living constitution" approach.

Political and Legal Perspectives highlights the impact of political change, or "democratization," on religious reform in Northern Europe.

New perspectives on marital relations, domesticity, and intimate life in imperial Russia.

In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the...