Cynthia Nicoletti

Works in Progress

Freedom’s Narrow Path (January 1, 2028)

Books

Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Articles & Essays

Reconstructing the Meaning of "Forty Acres and a Mule", 27 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 522-586 (2025)
Book Reviews, 14 Journal of the Civil War Era 546-548 (2024) (reviewing Peter Radan, Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America (2023))
Robert Smalls’s Tax Title Case and the Endurance of Land Redistribution in Port Royal, South Carolina, in The War That Made America 141-162 (Caroline E. Janney et al. eds., 2024)
William Henry Trescot, Pardon Broker, 11 Journal of the Civil War Era 478-506 (2021)
Book Reviews, 38 Law and History Review 299-301 (2020) (reviewing Rebecca Zietlow, The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction (2018))
The Rise and Fall of Transcendent Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era, 106 Virginia Law Review 1631-1702 (2020)
Book Reviews, 85 Journal of Southern History 476-477 (2019) (reviewing Dorothy Overstreet Pratt, Sowing the Wind: The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890 (2018))
Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase and the Permanency of the Union, 44 Journal of Supreme Court History 154-169 (2019)
Reviews of Books, 123 American Historical Review 1667-1668 (2018) (reviewing Paul E. Herron, Framing the Solid South: The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption 1860–1902 (2017))
Writing the Social History of Legal Doctrine, 64 Buffalo Law Review 121-140 (2016)
Book Reviews, 5 Journal of the Civil War Era 330-332 (2015) (reviewing William A. Blair, With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era (2014))
Reviews of Books, 92 North Carolina Historical Review 441-442 (2015) (reviewing Laura F. Edwards, A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2015))
Placing Merryman at the Center of Merryman, 34 Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 71-78 (2013) (reviewing Brian McGinty, The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus (2011) and Jonathan W. White, Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman (2011))
Strategic Litigation and the Death of Reconstruction, in Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History 265-288 (Sally E. Hadden & Patricia Hagler Minter eds, 2013)
Book Reviews, 29 Law and History Review 322-324 (2011) (reviewing Brian McGinty, John Brown's Trial (2009))
Did Secession Really Die at Appomattox?: The Strange Case of U.S. v. Jefferson Davis, 41 University of Toledo Law Review 587-635 (2010)
The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle, 28 Law and History Review 71-110 (2010)

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