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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Les Benedict is an American historian, who taught at Ohio State University from 1970 until his retirement in 2005. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Illinois and his PhD from Rice University. His expertise is principally in constitutional and legal history, civil rights and civil liberties, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Benedict brings a political science approach to his analysis of historical events. Benedict has contributed several works to the field of Civil War and Reconstruction studies including The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson , A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869 , Fruits of Victory: Alternatives in Restoring the Union, 1865-1877 , and, more recently, Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era .

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Laissez-Faire and Liberty: A Re-Evaluation of the Meaning and Origins Of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism (1985) (87)
A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869 (1974) (58)
The Paraguay-Paraná Hidrovía: Protecting the Pantanal with Lessons from the Past (2001) (50)
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (2002) (45)
Preserving the Constitution: The Conservative Basis of Radical Reconstruction (1974) (44)
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights@@@No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights@@@Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869@@@The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine (1989) (32)
Aquatic plant community composition and distribution along an inundation gradient at two ecologically-distinct sites in the Pantanal region of Brazil (2004) (29)
Preserving Federalism: Reconstruction and the Waite Court (1978) (27)
Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century (1981) (21)
The Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867 (2013) (19)
The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (1973) (17)
First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction (1973) (17)
Southern Democrats in the Crisis of 1876-1877: A Reconsideration of Reunion and Reaction (1980) (14)
Constitutional history and constitutional theory: Reflections on Ackerman, reconstruction, and the transformation of the American constitution (1999) (14)
Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era (2006) (10)
Impeachment of a President: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction (1975) (8)
A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1973) (8)
The fruits of victory : alternatives in restoring the Union, 1865-1877 (1986) (7)
Forgotten Firebrand: James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America (review) (2008) (7)
From Our Archives: A New Look at the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1998) (7)
American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline (1997) (7)
Contagion and the constitution: quarantine agitation from 1859 to 1866. (1970) (6)
Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2011) (5)
Abraham Lincoln and Federalism (1988) (5)
The history of Ohio law (2005) (4)
Aeromagnetic Depth Solutions Indicate Numerous Magnetic Sources within the Sedimentary Section of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (2002) (4)
Salmon P. Chase and Constitutional Politics (1997) (3)
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction (2012) (3)
Constitutional Politics in the Gilded Age (2010) (3)
Joseph E. Brown and the Politics of Reconstruction (1973) (2)
Historians and the Continuing Controversy over Fair Use of Unpublished Manscript Materials (1986) (2)
The U.S. Constitution and Secession: A Documentary Anthology of Slavery and White Supremacy (2019) (2)
Equality and Expediency in the Reconstruction Era: A Review Essay (1977) (2)
GEOLOGICAL CONTROL OF AQUIFER PROPERTIES OF THE CHUNIESPOORT GROUP IN THE KLIP RIVER VALLEY AND NATALSPRUIT BASIN, TRANSVAAL (1988) (2)
Law and regulation in the gilded age and progressive era (2000) (2)
Riparian forests in NW Ohio watersheds : relations between landscape structure , land use , and water quality in regional rivers Final Report to the Ohio Lake Erie Commission (2006) (1)
Learning from the Land: Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives into the Plant Sciences (2014) (1)
Essays in the History of Liberty: Seaver Institute Lectures at the Huntington Library (1990) (1)
Our "Sacred" Constitution - Another View of the Constitution as Literary Text (1987) (1)
The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823-1857. (1996) (1)
The Blessings of Liberty (1996) (1)
The Party, Going Strong: Congress and Elections in the Mid-19th Century (1981) (1)
The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 3: Correspondence, 1858-March 1863 (1996) (1)
The feaSiBiliTy of GeoThermal PoTenTial in The rio Grande rifT area of new mexico and TexaS (2011) (1)
Numbers, Science, and History: A Review Essay of The Indiana Voter (1978) (1)
Laura F. Edwards, A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (2016) (1)
History of the Supreme Court of the United States: Volume VI, Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864-88: Part One (1972) (1)
Tadahisu Kuroda, The Origins of the Twelfth Amendment: The Electoral College in the Early Republic, 1787–1804 , Contributions in Political Science, Number 344, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 235. $55.00 (ISBN 0-313-29151-9). (1997) (0)
Lead Isotopic Chronologies From Inland Lakes: Evidence for Watershed Scale Sources of Lead in the Great Lakes Region (2005) (0)
Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems@@@Impeachment: Trials and Errors@@@The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (1974) (0)
Developing the History of Congress: A Report (1986) (0)
Book reviews (1980) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume XVII: January 1-September 30, 1867. (1994) (0)
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. VI: 1862–1864. Ed. by Leroy P. Graf, Ralph W. Haskins, and Patricia P. Clark. (Knoxville and The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. VII: 1864–1863. Ed. by Leroy P. Graf and Patricia P. Clark. (Knoxville (1988) (0)
Riparian forests in NW Ohio watersheds: Relations among landscape structure, land use/land cover, and water quality in streams (2007) (0)
American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War (review) (2009) (0)
THE FAVORED HOUR : CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS IN THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTSION (釜田泰介教授古稀記念論集) (2013) (0)
American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War. By Christian G. Fritz (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 447 pp. $80.00 (2009) (0)
LHR volume 12 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1994) (0)
Only Child (2013) (0)
Bernard Schwartz. Main Currents in American Legal Thought. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic. 1993. Pp. xv, 660. $49.95 (1994) (0)
VirtuaForest : A Tool for Simple and Versatile Tree Data Visualization (2011) (0)
The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 5: Correspondence, 1865-1873 (1998) (0)
The People Themselves: The Constitutional Responsibility of the American People (2007) (0)
Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Reconstruction (2009) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 19: July 1, 1868-October 31, 1869; Volume 20: November 1, 1869-October 31, 1870. (1996) (0)
Lincoln and Constitutional Politics (2010) (0)
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (1987) (0)
To Secure These Rights: Rights, Democracy, and Judicial Review in the Anglo-American Constitutional Heritage (1981) (0)
The Politics of Prosperity in the Reconstruction South@@@Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1867-77.@@@The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures, and International Relationships, 1868-1879. (1984) (0)
The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 4: Correspondence, April 1863-1864 (1997) (0)
Impeachment Reconsidered@@@Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems.@@@The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (1973) (0)
The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. By Daniel W. Hamilton. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii, 231 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-226-31482-2.) (2007) (0)
RACISM AND EQUALITY IN AMERICA (2016) (0)
Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems.@@@The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. (1974) (0)
Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic (review) (2012) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 13: November 16, 1864 - February 20, 1865 (1985) (0)
Constitutional Developments from Jackson through Reconstruction (2015) (0)
Political Parties and the Constitution (2015) (0)
The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. 9: September 1865-January 1866.@@@The Papers of Andrew Johnson. Vol. 10: February-July 1866. (1993) (0)
Comment on Executive Privilege in Light of United States v. Nixon (1975) (0)
Factionalism and Representation: Some Insight from the Nineteenth-Century United States (1985) (0)
Sources in American Constitutional History (1995) (0)
Ideology and Politics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2003) (0)
At Every Fireside (2013) (0)
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume XXI: November 1, 1870-May 31, 1871 (2002) (0)
Republicans and the Free Republic in the Gilded Age (2008) (0)
Innovations in partnerships and tribal forest management: A panel discussion. (2020) (0)
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age Paul Kens (1999) (0)
Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism (2006) (0)
But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction by George C. Rable (1985) (0)
A Constitutional Crisis (2021) (0)
Racism and Equality in America@@@Racial Equality in America. (1978) (0)
Review of History of the Supreme Court of the United States: Volume VI, Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864-88: Part One by Charles Fairman (1972) (0)
Brian McGinty, Lincoln and the Court , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 375. $27.95 (ISBN 978-0-674-02655-1). (2009) (0)
A Different Perspective on Copyright (1993) (0)
New Perspectives on the Waite Court (2011) (0)
Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (1973) (0)
Book Review: Bottoms, An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890, by Michael Les Benedict (2014) (0)
James F. Simon. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2006. Pp. 324. $27.00 (2007) (0)
The Myth of Radical Reconstruction@@@A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869. (1975) (0)
Brooks D. Simpson. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1998. Pp. xi, 276. $35.00 (1999) (0)
Ex Parte Milligan in Context and History: (2020) (0)

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