- In the San Francisco Chronicle, Amanda L. Tyler (Berkeley Law) offers "Lessons from President Lincoln in the age of coronavirus."
- We the People, the podcast of the National Constitution Center, recently released an episode on "The Constitution and the Coronavirus." One of the featured guests is legal historian Polly Price (Emory University School of Law).
- The 28th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference, “Women’s Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19th Amendment," will now occur as a Zoom Webinar on Friday April 3rd, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MT. More.
- Ronald K. L. Collins on Wendell Bird on the history of freedom of speech and of the press over at First Amendment News.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: and (PhD candidates at Princeton University) on how "Dismantling the federal bureaucracy has left us all vulnerable to covid-19"; Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago) makes a similar argument regarding the "failure to create a better social safety net"; Jane Manners (Columbia Law School) on why "Democrats have been right to insist on a relief package that helps average Americans"; and more.
- ICYMI: A national compendium of exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment (Antiques). Miriam Seifter, Wisconsin Law, on gubernatorial emergency power. In case you want to brush up on a real war president for those FDR vs. DJT comparisons: this. Update: Okay, but what took so long? Update: Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe To Lose Its Reservation (WBUR).