History of the Supreme Court of the United States

Charles Fairman (1897–1988) was Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of Volumes 6 and 7 of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United State Supreme Court Reconstruction and Reunion: 1864–1888. He was also the author of numerous articles and books, including The Law of Martial Rule (1930) and Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court (1939). In 1948 he published his casebook, American Constitutional Decisions, and a year later, he published his classic article, 'Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights?'

• 1. Grant finds a Chief Justice; 2. Waite, C.J., joins the court; 3. Legislation to enforce the post-war amendments: 1866-72; 4. The Civil Rights Act of 1875; 5. Judicial response to the new legislation I: difficulties at the threshold; 6. Judicial response to the new legislation II: Minor, Reese, and Cruikshank; 7. Public aid to railroads; eminent domain; and rate regulation: the Granger cases; 8. Extension of federal jurisdiction; 9. Decisions on the enforcement statutes (1880); 10. The renewal of the court; 11. The civil rights cases (1883); 12. The Pacific Railroad and the public domain; 13. The commerce clause; 14. The court and the police power; 15. Reviewing the conduct of government; 16. The court and the law of nations; 17. The close of an epoch.