This honorable court. [Part 1,] The quiet of a storm center

"The history of the Supreme Court of the United States is presented from its beginnings in the Constitution to the Reagan presidency."
"Surveys the Court's evolution and growth from its modest beginnings in 1789, through the significant decisions rendered under Chief Justice John Marshall, the issue of slavery in the Dred Scott case to modern times and the process of nominating and confirming Supreme Court justices."@en
"Traces the U.S. Supreme Court from its beginnings when justices "rode the circuit" for up to 10,000 miles a year, through the Depression-era confrontation with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s, and continuing into the '60s, '70s, and '80s when the court emerged as a protector of civil rights and liberties."
"Traces the history of the Supreme Court from its first session in 1790 through some of its landmark cases into the present."@en