- Amanda Frost, Bronfman Professor of Law & Government, American University Washington College of Law, will be speaking on her book You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers online at Politics & Prose on January 28. More.
- Linda Kerber and Lisa Moses Leff will comment at the first Washington History Seminar of 2021 on at 4 PM ET Monday when David Nasaw discusses his new book, The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War. Register here; watch here.
- Applications for the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History are due on January 15. This two-week program of the American Society for Legal History for early career scholars will take place June 13-26, 2021. Information here.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Gregory P. Downs (UC Davis) and Kate Masur (Northwestern University), "Yes, Wednesday’s attempted insurrection is who we are."
- If you're working on death, this Call for a Royal Holloway virtual conference (15-16 April 2021) may be of interest. Proposals for Until Death Do Us Part: Historical Perspectives on Death and Those Left Behind, 1300-1900 are due Jan.29, 2021.
- And here's another Call for a virtual conference, from the University of Reading (27 April 2021): Medieval Government Finance: Innovation and Experimentation. Proposals due by 19 Feb. 2021.
- “When the Covid-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of conferences and public talks, the editors of the Journal of the Civil War Era organized a series of webinars with historians to discuss new books and research in Civil War era scholarship. The webinars are free, registration required, and the recordings are posted on the JCWE’s YouTube channel.” The lineup for the first five months of 2021 lineup is here.
- New from the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore: a brief introduction to the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.
- ICYMI: Holly Brewer explains that Thomas Jefferson did not rig the 1800 election (Washington Monthly). George F. Will doesn’t care for the Slaughterhouse Cases (WaPo).
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