- Here's an op-ed we missed last week, from USA Today: Amanda Tyler (Berkeley Law) on the Trump travel ban and the lessons to be drawn from Japanese American internment.
- UPDATE: Here's another one from USA Today: Christopher W. Schmidt (Chicago-Kent/American Bar Foundation) on "what Trump-era protestors can learn from the lunch-counter sit-ins of 1960."
- From Process, the blog of the OAH: Gabriel Loiacono (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh) on "Using Poor Laws to Regulate Race in Providence in the 1820s." (h/t @hidehirota)
- A Mankato, MN, law firm, Farrish Johnson, marks the 125th anniversary or its founding with a series of historical posts on its website.
- John Oliver, president of the Historical Society of Hartsville, Tenn., on Andrew Jackson as a young lawyer.
- A new issue of Common-place is out. It includes Katherine Gaudet (University of New Hampshire) on "how American society handles the collateral damage of capitalism," as manifested by bankruptcy law in an eighteenth-century novel.
- Those who follow the Frank May detective series, by Lawrence Friedman (Stanford University), will be pleased to know that a new installment is now out: The Body in the Yard (Quid Pro Books).
- There's also a new mystery series set in 1920s Bombay featuring Perveen Mistry, a female Parsi lawyer. Sujata Massey's The Widows of Malabar Hill has plenty of legal historical plot twists.
- Also on South Asia, a recent blogpost by Kalyani Ramnath, Princeton University traces legal histories across the Bay of Bengal at the Archives of Economic Life in South Asia blog.
- Here’s a recording of Tyler Stovall, UC Santa Cruz, deliver his Presidential Address at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, “White Freedom and the Lady of Liberty.”
- The National History Center’s next Congressional briefing is on the history of the Higher Education Act. It will be held on Friday, February 16, 2018 from 11:30 am-12:30 pm in Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2060.
- The deadline for the 2018 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research of the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington has been extended to Sunday, February 18, 2018.
