- The National Constitution Center’s Town Hall on Executive Authority: Presidential Power From America’s Founding to Today, with Gillian Metzger, Columbia Law School, and Saikrishna Prakash, University of Virginia School of Law, is now available online.
- Congratulations to Michael Schoeppner, University of Maine at Farmington, upon his receipt of an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for his proposed book, “‘Living Illegally,’ which tells the stories of free Black people whose illicit migrations belie the oft-told story of America’s open borders in the era before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882" (UMF).
- Congratulations to Adelina Miceli, this year’s recipient of the University of Connecticut Law School’s Distinguished Alumni Professor Kent Newmyer Award in American Legal History, “established in honor of Kent Newmyer to recognize a student who demonstrates excellence in the study of American legal history.”
- A wide-ranging interview of Seth Barrett Tillman (Ami).
- On June 21 at 2 pm, the Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site will host Megan Rhodes Victor, Queens College, who will present “‘We’ll Be Free’: Molly Houses, Community, & Homosexuality in the 18th C. English Colonial World.” The event is free and open to the public (New York Almanack).
- The Brennan Center has announced its Steven M. Polan Fellows in Constitutional Law and History for 2025–2026: Michele Goodwin, Brian Highsmith, Alan Jenkins, Joy Milligan, Bertrall Ross, and Robinson Woodward-Burns.
- Over at LPE Blog, a symposium is underway on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
- The American Political Science Association's advice to members those traveling between the United States and Canada for its annual meeting in Vancouver in September. (ASLH 2026 is set to meet in Alberta.)
- His Honour Peter Collier, KC, reviews The Legal History of the Church of England, edited by Norman Doe and Stephen Coleman (Church Times).
- ICYMI: Scott Bomboy on Four Cases When the Writ of Habeas Corpus Was Suspended (NCC). Rachel Barkow on the history of presidential pardons (NPR). A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England (R.I. PBS). Victoria Sutton on "the other slavery," with a lovely shout out to her teacher James May (NNO). An awkward moment at the Supreme Court Historical Society (WaPo).
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