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• Law and Society in Frontier Illinois, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• African-Americans and Black Codes in the Antebellum North, by James O. Horton, Ph.D., George Washington University.
• Fugitive Slaves and the Compromise of 1850, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• The Dred Scott Decision of 1857, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• The Dred Scott Decision and National Politics, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Attitudes Toward Race and Slavery, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.
• Public Land Law and the Settlement of the Frontier , by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Commercial Law and the Settlement of the Frontier, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Brunson v. Kedzie: The Law of Contracts and Frontier Settlement, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• Law and Commerce on the Frontier, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• The Law of Slavery, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• The Dred Scott Case, Part 1: Background, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.
• The Dred Scott Case, Part 2: Taney's Decision, by Charles McCurdy, Ph.D., University of Virginia.

These videos were made possible through a generous grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.