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Francis Butler Simkins: A Life

Francis Butler Simkins: A Life

James Scott Humphreys

Simkins to Wendell Holmes Stephenson, May 2, 1936, Box 70, in Stephenson Papers, Durham, N.C. 39. Simkins to Wendell Holmes Stephenson, February 17, 1937, Box 70, in Stephenson Papers, Durham, N.C.; Simkins, "Ben Tillman's View ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 16, 1876, Harvard University Archives. The letter is quoted in White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 112. 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., diary entry, June 17, 1872, Holmes papers. 11.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Allen Mendenhall

Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Baroness Marie Moncheur, July 16, 1910. Harvard University Holmes Digital Suite. Mark DeWolfe Howe's research materials on Holmes, 1858-1968: Finding Aid, October 1909- 1910.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Susan-Mary Grant

®Autobiographical. Sketch, ̄ 1861 (Harvard Class Album) 2x Oliver Wendell Holmes« Civil War Diary (Ball«s Bluff) 3x Oliver Wendell Holmes to Father: December 10, 1862 4x Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Frederic R. Kellogg

The journal of his reading, which he kept from 1865. 1 Howe, Justice Oliver WendellHolmes: TheProvingYears, 11–25, 96; White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 130. 2 Little, “The Early Reading of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,” 80 6 ...
The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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ROBERT W. GORDON Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born in 1841 into the center of Boston legal and literary cultures. 1 His maternal grandfather, Charles Jackson, had been a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. His father ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: The Supreme Court and American ...

Sophie W. Littlefield

Though some of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s friends put forward his name, there were other, more likely candidates. McKinley had just begun to consider candidates for the nomination when he was assassinated on September 6, 1901, by a ...
The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory ...

The Annotated Common Law: With 2010 Foreword and Explanatory ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You showed up a little late to the first presentation in the Lowell Institute series of lectures over the late fall, this installment given by esteemed local lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There's still the restless sound of people easing into their ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
Surviving the Confederacy: rebellion, ruin, and recovery : ...

Surviving the Confederacy: rebellion, ruin, and recovery : ...

John C. Waugh

Edited by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press and the Littlefield Fund for Southern History of the University of Texas, 1950. . The South during Reconstruction, 1865—18yj. Vol.
The East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications

The East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications

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VII of A History of The South, ed. by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter, noted, 183 Conspiracion Espanolat 1787-1789: Coii- tribucion al Estudio de las Primeras Relaciones Historicas Entre Espana y Los Estados Unidos de ...
War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861

War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861

Thomas Goodrich

Gunja SenGupta, For God and Mammon — Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860 (Athens: University of Georgia, 1996), 64. 51. Wendell Holmes Stephenson, The Political Career of General ...
Francis W. Pickens and the politics of destruction

Francis W. Pickens and the politics of destruction

John B. Edmunds

Edited by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and E. Merton Coulter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1950. Negro Legislators in Georgia during the Reconstruction Period. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1968. The South During ...
The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History

The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History

David Rosenberg

This bold book challenges a contemporary consensus on the titanic figure of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Journal of Southern History

The Journal of Southern History

Wendell Holmes Stephenson

"Lucinda Sparkle" by Jane Lucas de Grummond; "Military Events in Louisiana During the Civil War, 1861-1865" by Allen W. Jones; "Louisiana Clergy and the Confederate Army" by Sidney J. Romero; "The U. S. vs. Louisiana: The Continuing ...
The Journal of Southern History

The Journal of Southern History

Wendell Holmes Stephenson

"The Beginnings of Religious Journalism in North Carolina, 1823- 1865," by Henry S. Stroupe, in the North Carolina Historical Review (January). "Westward Migration from Iredell County, 1800-1850," by Hugh Hill Wooten, ibid. "The Moore's ...
Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: Letters of Justice Oliver ...

Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: Letters of Justice Oliver ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The importance of this edition of the Holmes-Sheehan letters rests in the first instance on this discovery.
Collected Legal Papers

Collected Legal Papers

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A valuable compilation, this volume contains Holmes' most famous speeches and papers from 1885 to 1918.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.--soldier, Scholar, Judge

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.--soldier, Scholar, Judge

Gary Jan Aichele

Traces Holmes' life, discusses his theory of legal realism and ethical relativism, and assesses his influence on American law
Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice ...

Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

This fine collection is accompanied by an essay by Sir John Pollock that skillfully places the writers' ideas in the perspective of recent experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

The book first sketches Holmes's early years--his childhood in Boston, his undergraduate years at Harvard (which his father and both grandfathers also attended), and his valiant service in the Civil War, during which he was severely wounded ...

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