Print version: Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered : Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, c2020 xiv, 372 pages ISBN 9780700629367
Benjamin F. Butler, Ex parte Milligan, and the unending civil war -- Martial Law and the Expansion of Civil Liberties during the Civil War -- The Janus-Faced Character of Martial Law in the American Civil War, or the Strange Case of Lieutenant Alanson L. Sanborn and Dr. David M. Wright -- Race, Class, and Copperheadism : The Localist Foundations of Dissent in the Civil War’s Middle Border -- "The State Was Honeycombed with Secret Societies" : Governor Oliver P. Morton and the Copperheads in Indiana -- "These Scoundrels Stand in No Fear of the Civil Courts; They Do, of the Military" : The Decision to Use Military Commissions to Try the Indiana Conspirators in 1864 -- Ex parte Milligan in Context and History : David Davis and the Constitutional Politics and Law of Civil Liberty -- To Leave Behind the Force of Law : Salmon Chase and the Civil War Era -- The Least Naive Position : The Lincoln Administration and International Law in American Wars on Terror -- Ex parte Milligan in the State Courts : Madison Y. Johnson’s Vindication in Illinois -- Ex parte Milligan in Context and History : From Reconstruction to the War on Terror -- Ex parte Milligan and the War on Terrorism : Testing the Constitutional Bedrock of a Civilian Criminal Trial.