Books in the Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society series

Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I; yet important free speech controversies and legal cases preceded the Espionage Act of 1917. World War I obscured prior libertarian defenses of free speech.

Focusing on a conflict in Alabama during the 1980s, Robert Daniel Rubin considers how conservative evangelicals forged a political identity. To protect Christianity's role in public education, they both resisted and solicited the federal courts. This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists, and constitutional lawyers.

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation, providing historical perspective on the intellectual, legal and administrative foundations of the current US tax regime. Ajay K. Mehrotra explores what tax reformers at the turn of the twentieth century accomplished and how their limited achievements were contested at nearly every turn.