- We note the passing of the constitutional historian Herman Belz, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland.
- Eric Foner reviews Dylan C. Penningroth’s Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (NYRB).
- New online in the American Journal of Legal History: Alexander Hamilton's Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Bank Bill by Peter Charles Hoffer.
"On April 11, 2024, at 6:15 pm, the [Supreme Court Historical] Society and Dacor-Bacon House Foundation will co-host a lecture on Chief Justice Melville Fuller with author Douglas Rooks, [who will speak on the Insular Cases.] The event will be held at the historic Dacor-Bacon House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, DC. Tickets are $35 to attend in person and $10 to attend virtually." Register here.
Melville Fuller (LC)
- Congratulations to Gerard N. Magliocca, the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, upon his naming as a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University.
- Brandon Terry, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, delivered the inaugural Catharine Wells Memorial Lecture in Jurisprudence at the Boston College Law School on February 26. Professor Terry drew upon his book, The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement: Political Theory and the Historical Imagination.
- ICYMI: UC Berkeley student brings to light stories of LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII (Berkeley Library). Library archives uncover long-lost history of Colorado women dying trying to get an abortion (CPR). “Women’s Work” Powers the Economy—And Has Always Been Undervalued (Time).
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