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Penny A. Petersen: "Isaac Atwater."
Thomas L. Olson: "Blockbusters: Minnesota Movie Men Slug it out with Studio Moguls, 1938-1948."
"The history of law is the history of ideas" --- A preface to articles on intellectual legal history and theory posted on the MLHP.
Justice David J. Brewer: "Protection to Private Property from Public Attack." (1891).
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Justice Calvin L. Brown: "State and Federal Police Power." (1908).
James J. Hill: "The Railroad: Legislative Regulation and Its Limits." (1910).
Edward T. Young: "The Present Problems Involved in Minnesota's Statehood." (1908).
President Theodore Roosevelt: "The Courts." (1908).
Louis D. Brandeis: "The Opportunity in the Law." (1905).


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Eben E. Corliss: "Reminiscences of the Early History of Otter Tail County" (1916).

Four months after Eben E. Corliss arrived in Otter Tail County in July 1870, he was elected county attorney. There was no government at that time, although the county had been created by the legislature twelve years earlier. In January 1871, newly-elected county officials began establishing townsh...

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James Manahan: "Trials of a Lawyer." (1933).

James Manahan (1866-1932) was a prominent lawyer in Minnesota during the Progressive Era and beyond--from 1906 through the early 1920s. He died in 1932 at the age of sixty-six, and his autobiography, "Trials of a Lawyer," was published by his daughter Kathryn the following year.

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