- The Supreme Court Historical Society has announced the virtual conversation, The Jay Family of New York: Abolition, Slavery and an Enslaved Woman Named Abigail: A Conversation between Martha Jones and David Gellman, to be held on July 26, 2022, starting at 12:00 PM ET. More.
- Each of the four volumes of the just published Cambridge History of America in the World has essays on law. For example, volume 2 includes The United States and International Law: From the Transcontinental Treaty to the League of Nations Covenant, 1819-1919, by Eileen P. Scully, Bennington College.
- New in Studies in American Political Development: Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V, by Stephan Stohler, David Bateman, and Robinson Woodward-Burns.
- Scott Gerber, Ohio Northern University, reviews Evan Haefeli’s Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497–1662 (Law & Liberty).
- Kyle Mays, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses his new book, City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) (Current).
- Podcast aficionados, we've had History is Us, by Eddie S. Galude, Princeton University, commended to us, and, two episodes in, we can say that we are enjoying and learning from Joshua Lash's four-part podcast on the life and legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which is the first season of the Patheos series, From Sin to Saint. DRE
- ICYMI: The records of the Sojourner Truth’s freedom suit for her son have been discovered (AP NEWS). A video on same from USA Today. The Surprising History of Abortion Rights (CNN). Before Roe: the abortionist Nathan Rappaport (Slate). The New Haven Roots of Roe v. Wade (New Haven Independent). "Blue discharges" and homosexual behavior in the US military (History Channel). A Short History of LGBTQ Rights at UVA Law and Beyond (UVA Law). The worst decision of the Washington State Supreme Court (Chronicle).
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