Reading Materials
Roger Brooke Taney and The Case Of Dred Scott




Auchampaugh, Philip. James Buchanan: A Political Portrait 1856. Reno, Nevada: University Press, 1946.
Pages 1-64.

Fehrenbacher, Don. Slavery, Law, and Politics. NY: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Pages 121-308.

Delaplaine, Edward. Maryland in Law and Politics. NY: Vintage Press, 1964.
Pages 97-133

Finkelman, Paul. Dred Scott v. Sandford. NY: Hamline University Press, 1997.
Pages 1-126.

Levy, Beryl. Our Constitution: Tool Or Testament. NY: MacMillan Publishing, 1941.
Pages 97-107.

Lewis, Walker. Without Fear or Favor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1967.
Pages 337-474.

Palmer, Benjamin. Marshall and Taney: Statesmen of the Law. NY: Russell and Russell Publishing, 1966.
Pages 145-274.

Ransom, Roger. Conflict and Compromise. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Pages 1-40/ 146-148.

Roland, Charles. The American Iliad. Boston: McGraw Hill Publishing, 1991.
Pages 1-24.

Smith, Charles. Roger B. Taney: Jacksonian Jurist. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1936.
Pages 141-176.

Swisher, Carl. The History of the Supreme Court of the United States: The Taney Period 1836-1864. NY: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1974.
Pages 592-652.

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