Legal History on the Web: Prizes

Article / Book Companion Websites

Suckers & Swindlers in American History, Edward J. Balleisen
Companion website to Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff, (Princeton University Press, 2018); extensive bibliography, essay about sources and methods, essay about avenues for future research, compilations of fraud-related slang, and more.
Law, Society, and Marriage in the later Middle Ages, Charles Donahue, Jr.
Companion to Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2007), includes 304 pages of additional commentary and tables.
Court Records, Kimberly Welch
High quality photographs of sample court cases involving black plaintiffs and white defendants from the antebellum Natchez district related to Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (UNC Press, 2018).
Legal History: History of American Economic Regulation, Kenneth Mack
Open access casebook materials and links to resources.
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Stanley N. Katz
Online entries of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History organized alphabetically (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Transcription and Translation of María Coleta’s Confesiones and figure II, Rebecca J. Scott, Carlos Venegas Fornias, Ana María Silva Campo, Daniel Varela Corredor, Omohundro Institute OI Reader
Companion to “María Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status,” WMQ 76, NO. 4 (OCTOBER 2019): 727-62, which includes a historical map and a transcription and translation of the “Confessions" of María Luisa Coleta.