Here is a recording of The Tenth Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Lecture, “What History and Historians Have Gotten Wrong About Salmon Chase” by Walter Stahr, the author of Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival and the recipient of the Georgetown Center’s Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize. The event was sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. James Oakes provides a quite interesting assessment of Chase in his introduction.
Salmon P. Chase (LC)
- The Larry McNeill Research Fellowship in Texas Legal History, awarded annually for the best research proposal on some aspect of Texas legal history, is accepting applications through November 15, 2023. More.
- The Center for Constitutional Design at Arizona State University and the National Constitution Center present the discussion, From FDR to Biden: The Creation of the Modern Presidency, with Sidney Milkis, Barbara Perry, and Stephen Knott, moderated by Jeffrey Rosen.
- Here is the October 2023 issue of the newsletter of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit.
- Barry Cushman, Notre Dame Law, lectured on the court-packing crisis of 1937 at Taylor University on September 20 (Echo).
- Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School, lectured on “The Founding Fathers and the Importance of Civil Discourse” as part of the Starr Federalist Papers Lecture Series at Baylor University. More.
- Lawbook Exchange’s October 2023 catalogue is here.
- ICYMI: Alexander Keyssar and Thomas Wolf on the Supreme Court's Originalism (Newsweek). Indianapolis has unveiled a historical marker describing the 1845 lynching of John Tucker (WFYI). William Leuchtenburg is 101.
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