Dissent, Injustice and
the Making of America
Required
Reading
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All of the following books, available through the Evergreen bookstore (except for the Fighting Faiths book), are required reading for the fall quarter.  Each student will be required to possess each book, to read it carefully and critically, and to bring it to class (especially seminar) during the week it is studied.
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BOOKS FOR WINTER QUARTER
Peter Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court (Penguin USA), ISBN: 0140292012
Daniel Oran & Mark Tosti, Oran's Dictionary of the Law, (Delmar Learning, 3rd edition: 2000), ISBN: 0766817423
Richard Polenberg, Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court and Free Speech (Cornell University Press: September 1999), ISBN: 0801486181 (Not available in the bookstore.  See our Notices page about your need to order this book online.)
Peter Irons, The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (Penguin USA; Reprint edition), ISBN: 0140128107
Ellen Schrecker, Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's; 2nd edition, November 2001), ISBN: 0312393199
Maurice Isserman & Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960's (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition: August 2003), ISBN: 0195160479
Susan Brownmiller, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Dell: November 2000), ISBN: 0385318316
David Cole, James X. Dempsey & Carole E. Goldberg, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (New Press; 2nd edition: September 2002), ISBN: 1565847822

LANDMARK 
SUPREME COURT
CASES

Supplementary Reading for Dissent, Injustice & the Making of America
2004 Winter Quarter

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Landmark Supreme Court Cases: Dissent & Injustice, special supplement of key Supreme Court opinions, edited for this program (will be available for purchase in the bookstore by the end of the first week; first week's reading from this supplement will be distributed as a handout on the first day.)
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BOOKS FOR FALL QUARTER
Peter Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court (Penguin USA), ISBN: 0140292012
Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (University of North Carolina Press) ISBN: 0807847860
Joyce Moser and Ann Watters, Creating America: Reading and Writing Arguments (Prentice Hall) ISBN: 0130918423
*Theda Perdue and Michael Green, The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's)
*Kenneth S. Greenberg, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's)
*Paul Finkelman, Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's)
William H. Rehnquist, All The Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime (Vintage Books) ISBN: 0679767320
Robert M. Goldman, Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank (University Press of Kansas) ISBN: 0700610693
David Ray Papke, The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America (University Press of Kansas) ISBN: 0700609547
*Brook Thomas, Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's)
*Nancy Woloch, Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's) Supplemental
Reading
From time to time, you will be given additional required reading.  This will be in the form of handouts or specified Internet resources.  Links throughout the program website will provide a wealth of optional reading. 
. *Bundled together and sold at a discount at the bookstore. . . .
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