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Resolved: “President Lincoln was justified in declaring martial law in Maryland during the Civil War.”

Background Information

Maryland in the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Books on Reserve-Here are a few books to get you started.

975.2 B

Brown, George William, 1812-1890. Baltimore and the nineteenth of April, 1861 : a study of the war. Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

975.2 M

Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene. Maryland, a history of its people. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1986.
An introductory high school textbook surveying the history of Maryland, with emphasis on the blacks, women, immigrants, and other special groups contributing to the variety of its population.

975.2 M

Maryland voices of the Civil War. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

921 Lincoln

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Speeches and writings, 1832-1858 : speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, the Lincoln-Douglas debates. New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States :, 1989.

921 Lincoln

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Speeches and writings, 1859-1865 : speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, presidential messages and proclamations. New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States :, c1989.

921 Lincoln

McPherson, James M. Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief. New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.

 

Neely, Mark E. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (New for the debate--looks good!)

 

342.73 R

Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005. All the laws but one : civil liberties in wartime. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1998.
Mr. Lincoln goes to Washington -- Lincoln suspends habeas corpus -- Taney rebukes Lincoln -- Seward and Stanton -- Burnside and Vallandigham -- Copperheads in the heartland -- The Indianapolis treason trials -- David Davis and the Supreme Court -- The arguments in the Milligan case -- The Milligan decision -- Lincoln is assassinated -- Confederates in Canada -- Booth's accomplices -- World War I -- World War II: Japanese internments -- Postwar criticism -- Hawaii under martial law -- Inter arma silent leges.

Journal articles-To locate more articles search the JSTOR and Proquest periodical databases.

 

Nineteenth Century Periodicals (from the American Memory 19th Century in Print)
Military and Martial Law. [The North American review. / Volume 102, Issue 211, Apr 1866]

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Habeas Corpus and Martial Law. [The North American review. / Volume 93, Issue 193, October 1861]

Current Periodicals

The Anti-Lincoln Tradition
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 4 (1982), pp. 6-28

 

Playing with Fire: The Civil Liberties Implications of September 11th
Jon B. Gould
Public Administration Review, Vol. 62, Special Issue: Democratic Governance in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 (Sep., 2002), pp. 74-79

 

Lincoln: Democracy's Touchstone
David R. Wrone
Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 1 (1979), pp. 71-83

 

Civil Liberties in the Era of Mass Terrorism
Russell Hardin
The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Terrorism (2004), pp. 77-95

 

Abraham Lincoln and Our "Unfinished Work"
Mario M. Cuomo
Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 8 (1986), pp. 43-54

 

Abraham Lincoln and American Constitutionalism
Herman Belz
The Review of Politics, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Spring, 1988), pp. 169-197

 

The Law of Martial Rule and the National Emergency
Charles Fairman
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 8 (Jun., 1942), pp. 1253-1302

 

The Law of Martial Rule
Charles Fairman
The American Political Science Review, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Aug., 1928), pp. 591-616

 

Prerogative and the Rule of Law in John Locke and the Lincoln Presidency
Sean Mattie
The Review of Politics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 77-111

 

Lincoln, Lieber and the Laws of War: The Origins and Limits of the Principle of Military Necessity
Burrus M. Carnahan
The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 92, No. 2 (Apr., 1998), pp. 213-231

 

Lincoln's Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constitutionalism
Benjamin A. Kleinerman
Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Dec., 2005), pp. 801-816

 

Lincoln and His Political Generals
Brooks D. Simpson
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 63-77

 

Civil and Military Relationships under Lincoln
J. G. Randall
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Jul., 1945), pp. 199-206

 

Abraham Lincoln in the National Capital
Allen C. Clark
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 27 (1925), pp. 1-174

 

Abraham Lincoln and the Border States
William E. Gienapp
Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 13 (1992), pp. 13-46

 

From Martial Law to the War on Terror
Mark Neocleous
New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall 2007), pp. 489-513

 

Lincoln and the Strategy of Defense in the Crisis of 1861
Kenneth M. Stampp
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Aug., 1945), pp. 297-323

 

Lincoln and Taney: A Study in Constitutional Polarization
Robert M. Spector
The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), pp. 199-214

 

National Emergency Powers: A Brief Overview of Presidential Suspensions of the Habeas Corpus Privilege and Invocations of Martial Law
Harold C. Relyea
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall, 1977), pp. 238-243

 

Video

Mark Neely: Lincoln and Civil Liberties (recommended by Mr. George)

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