{"product_id":"ex-parte-milligan-reconsidered-stewart-l-winger-9780700629367","title":"Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror","description":"At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in \u003ci\u003eEx parte Milligan\u003c\/i\u003e the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional to try American citizens in military tribunals when civilian courts were open and functioning--as they were in Indiana. Far from being a relic of the Civil War, the landmark 1866 decision has surprising relevance in our day, as this volume makes clear. Cited in four Supreme Court decisions arising from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, \u003ci\u003eEx parte Milligan\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to constitutional questions raised by the war on terror; but more than that, the authors of Ex parte Milligan \u003ci\u003eReconsidered\u003c\/i\u003e contend, the case affords an opportunity to reevaluate the history of wartime civil liberties from the Civil War era to our own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the Civil War, critics of Reconstruction pointed to \u003ci\u003eMilligan\u003c\/i\u003e as an example of the Republican Party's abuse of federal power; even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration's record on civil liberties during the Civil War. However, the authors of this volume argue that this distorts the nineteenth-century understanding of the Bill of Rights, neglects international law entirely, and, equally striking, ignores the experience of African Americans. In reviving \u003ci\u003eMilligan\u003c\/i\u003e, the Supreme Court has implicitly cast Reconstruction as a \"war on terror\" in which terrorist insurgencies threatened and eventually halted the assertion of black freedom by the Republican Party, the Union Army, and African Americans themselves. Returning African Americans to the center of the story, and recognizing that Lincoln and Republicans were often forced to restrict white civil liberties in order to establish black civil rights and liberties, Ex parte Milligan \u003ci\u003eReconsidered\u003c\/i\u003e suggests an entirely different account of wartime civil liberties, one with profound implications for US racial history and constitutional law in today's war on terror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stewart L. Winger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 070062936X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700629367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2021","brand":"Stewart L. Winger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941204689151,"sku":"9780700629367","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_47d174ac-2d06-4075-80a5-bb6acf69f321.jpg?v=1681451535","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ex-parte-milligan-reconsidered-stewart-l-winger-9780700629367","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}