Norman L. Rosenberg

DeWitt Wallace Professor of History and Legal Studies

Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105

651-696-6225; 651-696-6498 (fax)

rosenbergn@macalester.edu

Representative Publications Since 1986:

Books:

Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel (North Carolina,

1990)

In Our Times: America Since 1945 (1^st to 7^th editions, 1976-2003) (co-author)

Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the United States (1^st to 4^th editions, 1996-2004)

(co-author) Concise Editions (1^st to 3^rd editions, 1998-2004)

America Transformed: A History of the United States since 1900 (1999) (co-author)

Picturing Law: Hollywood and the Portrayal of Legal Practice in the United States (in

progress)

Re-Inventing the First Amendment: The Contested Terrain of Legally Protected

Expression , 1940-73 (in progress)

Articles and Essays:

“Law,” in Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century (Blackwell, Steven Whitfield, ed,

2004)

“Popular Culture and the Supreme Court,” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court

(Christopher Tomlins, ed., 2004)

“Law and Popular Culture,” for Cambridge History of Law in America (Cambridge,

Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds., in progress)

“Constitutional History After the Cultural Turn: Cross-Examining the Legal-Reelist

Narratives of Henry Fonda,’ in Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing

the New Constitutional History (Kansas, 2002)

“Looking for Law in All the Old Traces: The Movies of Classical Hollywood, the Law,

and the Case(s) of Film Noir,” 48 UCLA Law Review (2001): 1443

“The Caine Mutiny: Not Just One But Many Legal Dramas,” 31 Journal of Maritime

Law (2000): 623

“Perry Mason: Above But Not Beyond the Law,” in Prime-Time Law: Fictional TV

Lawyers and their Impact on America (Carolina Academic, Robert Jarvis and

Paul Joseph, ed., 1998)

“Law Noir,” in Legal Reelism: The Hollywood Movie as Legal Text (Illinois, John

Denvir, ed., 1996)

“Professor Lightcap Goes to Washington: Re-Reading Talk of the Town,” 30 U.S.F. L.

Rev. (1996): 1083

“The ‘Popular First Amendment’ and Classical Hollywood,” 1930-1960: Film Noir and

“Speech Theory for the Millions,” in Freeing the First Amendment (NYU, Robert

Jensen and David Allen, ed., 1995)

“Hollywood on Trials: Courts and Films, 1930-60,” Law & History Review, 12 (1994): 341.

“Young Mr. Lincoln: The Lawyer as Super-Hero,” Legal Studies Forum, 15 (1991): 215

“Freedom of Speech” in By and For the People: Constitutional Rights in

American History (Kermit Hall, ed., 1991)

“Freedom of the Press,” in Id.

“From Colonialism to Professionalism: The Public-Private Dynamic in U.S. Foreign Policy Advising, 1898-1929,” Journal of American History, 74 (1987): 59 (co-author)

“Gideon’s Trumpet: Sounding the Retreat from Legal Realism,” in Recasting America (Chicago, Lary May, ed., 1986).

Earlier Scholarly Articles in:

Rutgers Law Review

Law & Inequality

Constitutional Commentary

Journal of Popular Culture

Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography

Civil War History

American Journal of Legal History

University of Puget Sound Law Review

University of Northern Kentucky Law Review