History of the Supreme Court of the United States

1. The background of the Taney Court; 2. The Taney appointment; 3. Personnel of the Taney Court; 4. The first term and the Bridge Case; 5. The realm of finance; 6. Hard times and contract obligations; 7. The scope of executive power; 8. The impact of foreign affairs; 9. Politics and personnel; 10. The judges and the circuits; 11. The expanding work load; 12. The clerk and the reporter; 13. Federal courts and the common law; 14. Fringes of the codification movement; 15. The control of commerce; 16. The continuing struggle over commerce; 17. The developing pattern of the commerce power; 18. Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; 19. The rights of corporations; 20. Patent rights and free enterprise; 21. Political questions and judicial power; 22. Sectionalism and slavery; 23. Soil for slavery; 24. The Dred Scott case; 25. Aftermath of the Scott case; 26. The Booth cases and Northern nullification; 27. Fugitives from justice; 28. The widening breach; 29. The court on the eve of the war; 30. Property in land; 31. The wealth of El Dorado; 32. Lincoln's appointments to the court; 33. The war and the federal judges; 34. The blockade and the laws of war; 35. Wartime curtailment of civil rights; 36. Other problems from the war; 37. The end of the Taney regime.