- More on ASLH stalwart Patti Minter's candidacy for a seat in the Kentucky legislature.
- The schedule is out for the Thirteenth Amendment and Economic Justice Symposium at UNLV Law on Saturday, March 3, 2018. H/t: Faculty Lounge.
- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Daniel LaChance (Emory University) on "How ‘Black Mirror’ exposes the racist reality of the death penalty in America."
- We've previously mentioned the legal history feature on the OAH's Process blog. Follow the link to see new posts by Katrina Jagodinsky (University of Nebraska), Gregory Evans Dowd (University of Michigan), and Andrea Geiger (Simon Fraser University).
- Thursday was Legal Records Appreciation Day in Vermont! The declaration was in conjunction with the a tribute for Dr. Samuel B Hand. who, vermontbiz reports, laid “the ground work for the identification, preservation and accessibility of legal records, specifically court records, in this state.”
- The Graphic Justice Research Alliance has announced “a call for papers for its annual conference at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY, to be held October 20, 2018. The theme for this year’s Graphic Justice Discussions is ‘Law, Comics, Justice.’” And, yes. it's legal history! H/t: C. Capozzola
- On Wednesday, Duke’s Thavolia Glymph, the law school’s John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, delivered the school’s annual Robert R. Wilson Lecture, “You will please let me know if we are free”: The Dissolution of Property Rights in Human Beings in War and the Bounds of Freedom. Duke Today.
- Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Library gets a makeover. Consulting the Jerome Frank Papers will never be the same!
- The history of housing segregation in the Bay Area and beyond was the topic of a recent show on KAWL on Richard Rothstein’s Color of Law. Remember, folks, a call-in show on a local public radio show is a good way to disseminate the message of a recently published book.
- The Smithsonian recently published a story on new database on “New York’s Historic Ties to Slavery,” with “searchable records of slavery from birth registrations to runaway slave advertisements.”
- Amir Toft and Raha Rafii are seeking panelists for an ASLH proposal on "Courts and Judges in Islamic History." Please e-mail them by Feb.16 if you'd like to join forces: rafii@sas.upenn.edu, amir.toft@yale.edu. Details posted on H-Law here.
- ICYMI: The History Channel's Six Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement. Fred Grey visits Dallas high school and college students. Allen Carl Guelzo on The History of Reconstruction's Third Phase. RBG’s grandfather read the Forverts. Also: Trump, treason and the Whiskey Rebellion.
