- Rachel A. Shelden, Associate Professor of History and Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University, will discuss her current research topic, The Political Supreme Court: Justices, Partisanship, and Power in the Nineteenth Century, over lunch at the Fred W. Smith National Library at [George Washington’s] Mount Vernon on November 1, from 12-1.
- The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of Law and Society includes two book reviews of legal histories: James Kloppenberg reviews William Novak's New Democracy and Andrew Lanham reviews Linda Colley's The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen.
- Glenn C. Altschuler, Cornell University, reviews Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Charles S. Dameron reviews it in the WSJ.
- Judge M. Margaret McKeown discusses her new book, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion in a podcast (ABAJ).
- Yale’s Beinecke Library “is delighted to announce that, as of February 2021, the Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers has been processed and digitized and is now accessible online to scholars, students, and the public." (More.)
- "Historical documents offer glimpses of the Underground Railroad in Chicago" (Sun Times).
- ICYMI: Kenneth Mack and Manisha Sinha are quoted in this story on the historians who advised President Biden (NPR). Erwin Chemerinsky says that Even the Founders Didn’t Believe in Originalism (The Atlantic). Lauren Thompson says that the Supreme Court’s selective reading of US history ignored 19th-century women’s support for "voluntary motherhood" (The Conversation).
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