- DC Public Libraries are digitizing and publishing online, “on an ongoing basis,” the photo archive of the Washington Star. The first batch are images of “the 1968 uprisings” after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
- We were looking for something else when we found this recording of The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court, the 2017 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lectureship in Legal History, delivered by Laura Kalman, UC Santa Barbara, from April 20, 2017.
- "On April 26, 2018, ConSource and The Harlan Institute will host the championship round of the sixth annual National Virtual Supreme Court Competition for high school students" at Georgetown Law.
- CFPs from All Over: The Faculty Lounge has the call for papers for the symposium The Vitality of Cooper v. Aaron after 60 Years, organized by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review. And, via H-Law, we have a CFP for Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s, at London South Bank University.
- In Our Review Copy Mailbag: Two from Oxford University Press: Nadine Strossen, Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, in OUP's Inalienable Rights Series, edited by Geoffrey R. Stone, and C. Donald Johnson, The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America. Strossen is the former president of the ACLU; Johnson has had a long career in elective office and as a trade negotiator.
- ICYMI: Vanessa Burrows, an FDA Historian, on why we need regulation, over at HNN. Also via HNN: highlights of the recent annual meeting of the OAH. Garrett Epps, in The Atlantic, on The Travel Ban's Ignominious Precedents.
- And thanks for all the well wishes on my installation as Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal History at Georgetown Law last Tuesday. DRE.
