Welcome, Melissa Milewski!

We here at Legal History Blog are pleased to have Melissa Milewski guest blogging with us this month.  Her Ph.D. in U.S. History is from New York University. She has been a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has taught at Columbia University.  Currently, she is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex in England.  She has just published Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights (Oxford University Press) and will be blogging about her book.