This past week on the Facebook page we offered some suggestions
for readings on American legal historiography including Tomiko Brown-Nagin on
Biography as History and Karen Tani’s very helpful list of readings for
comprehensive exams, here and here.
Over the next week, we’re continuing with our focus on legal
history as a discipline, but shifting to the web to highlight the various ways that ideas and
methodologies in legal history are sustained by online forums and resources. As Mary noted here, the blogosphere and the history
community lost a wonderful resource this week with the closing of
Cliopatria. But historians still have a vibrant online community of resources and commentary. And legal historians have a particularly
strong presence on the web (take a look at the “recommended reading” and “law
and history” links along LHB’s left column).
This week on the Facebook page we’re highlighting web
resources, blogs, and online archives for legal historians. To start things off, you might want to check
out In Custodia Legis, the blog
of the law librarians of Congress, which as Karen noted here, is archiving the
blawgosphere.
