Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Slavery as an Interpretive Issue in the 39th Reconstruction Congress: The Northern Democrats	23
3	Republican Slavery Criticism	42
4	The Supreme Court's Official History	61
5	Dueling Histories: Charles Fairman and William Crosskey Reconstruct "Original Understanding"	96
6	Recipes for "Acceptable" History	132
7	History as an Institutional Resource: Warren Court Debates over Legislative Apportionment	155
8	Constitutional Law as a "Culture of Argument": Toward a Sociology of Constitutional Law	185
9	Conclusion	208
	Notes	215
	Bibliography	257
	Index	267