Cooke sold the bonds at par, and built a national reputation on his success. He soon became central to the federal government’s continued funding efforts. We need not follow the story of his ...

Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, now in the spotlight for his 1869 ruling on “insurrection,” offers a lesson about the link between law and politics.

A look at the former chief justice Salmon P. Chase. His limitations were, in many ways, the limitations of all the Radical Republicans who sought to remake the United States after the Civil War.