- A statue of Clarence Darrow has just gone up in the county courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, where it joins one of William Jennings Bryan.
- This Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of independence for India and Pakistan (which then included the future Bangladesh). Some reflections: Pankaj Mishra's "India at 70, and the Passing of another illusion," oral history interviews on The 1947 Partition Archive, and these photos. For novels, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking Earth (also a film, Earth) are classics.
- James Whitman's Hitler's American Model is finding new readers lately. Here's a notable example. And a lawyer urges readers of the Richmond Times Dispatch to go back to C. Vann Woodward's Strange Career of Jim Crow.
- H-Law has the CFP for Jewish Commercial and Intellectual Property Law Through the Ages, October 30, 2017 at the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, California.
- ICYMI: Sara Butler asks, Just how Lawless were the Middle Ages? Historians Alice O’Connor, and Andrew Porwancher on Steve Bannon. Backstory “on how Americans have interacted, dealt with, and tried to actively change the North American climate."
- Update: His statues have been removed from public display in Frederick and Annapolis, Maryland. Now, the Philadelphia Voice reports, a "Temple student wants Philly to rename [C.J. Roger B.] Taney Street after Mo'ne Davis." Also: a report on the removal of the Annapolis statue, including observations from Ira Berlin and Michael Ross of the University of Maryland.
