- Two new posts at Talking Legal History. Guest Host Lesa Redmond, a first year student in the Department of History at Duke University, interviews Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College, on his recently published Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South, 2d ed. (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020). Siobhan M.M. Barco discusses Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with authors Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross.
- Congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed on her University Professorship at Harvard University (Crimson; Gazette).
- Now available as a free download, Racism in America: A Reader, with a Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed. (HUP). “At Harvard University Press, we’ve had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume—culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature—are an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators.” TOC here.
- Also available as a free download, the latest issue of the journal Capitalism, including the article Capitalism when Labor was Capital: Slavery, Power, and Price in Antebellum America, by Caitlin Rosenthal.
- We've learned from Cambridge University Press that, after a Covid-19 related delay, the latest Law and History Review has been printed and will soon be mailed.
- The directors of the FDR and LBJ Libraries discuss the friendship between the two presidents on Wednesday, August 5, at 2pm on Facebook Premiere in a session entitled The New Deal to the Great Society.
- The National Constitution Center announces the opening of its exhibit The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote on August 26.
- Much of interest in the latest (34:1) issue of Studies in American Political Development. Check out, for example, Paul Musgrave, “Bringing the State Police In: The Diffusion of U.S. Statewide Policing Agencies, 1905–1941.”
- Now available as an e-pub on Amazon Kindle: Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection.
- White Supremacy and Historical Memory: Collegiate and Suburban Division. University of Chicago and Stephen A. Douglas. UNC Chapel Hill and Charles B. Aycock, Julian S. Carr and Josephus Daniels. Chevy Chase Advisory Neighborhood Commission and Francis G. Newlands.
- Cindy Ewing (University of Missouri) has won the Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for Best Dissertation (ISA) and the Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History (SHAFR) for her 2018 dissertation (Yale), "The Asian Unity Project: Human Rights, Third World Solidarity, and the United Nations, 1945-1955."
- Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana University) received a commendation from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing's DeLong Book History Prize for Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China. The book was featured in the International Society for Chinese Law and History's last Summer Book Talk on July 30.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Lindsay M. Chervinsky (Institute for Thomas Paine Studies/nternational Center for Jefferson Studies), "George Washington invoked executive privilege. But he’d reject Barr’s version"; Dana Frank (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Congresswomen of color have always fought back against sexism"; and more.
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