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Introduction: A Famous Fox, a Surfacing Whale, and the Forgotten Slave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2010

Alfred L. Brophy
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Discoveries in history occur in lots of different ways. Every once in a while we come across some forgotten documents—a photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a trial transcript, other long-neglected court records, or a family archives. At other times we learn something new by just looking in old books while asking questions that we have not previously asked (or approaching those questions with skepticism) or by looking again and more deeply at published reports.

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Forum: Pierson v. Post: Capturing New Facts about the Fox
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Law and History Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Spring 2009 , pp. 145 - 148
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Copyright © the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 2009

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