- From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: "Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves," by Mary Niall Mitchell, Joshua D. Rothman, Edward E. Baptist, Vanessa Holden, and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, co-directors of Freedom on the Move.
- Over at JOTWELL, Jedidiah Kroncke has posted Living Under Imperial Constitutional Law in Puerto Rico, a notice on Sam Erman's Almost Citizens (2018).
- The National History Center hosts a congressional briefing on the history of gun rights and regulations in the United States on Friday, March 8, 2019 from 11:00 am-12:00 pm in Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2045. The speakers are Saul Cornell, Fordham University, and Darrell Miller, Duke Law School. The moderator is Karin Wulf, William & Mary.
- Seth Barrett Tillman has posted a Understanding the Jefferson Diplomatic Gifts: A Response to Dr. Andrew Fagal, a response to Andrew Fagal's essay, Thomas Jefferson and the Arabian Stallion: A Research Note on the Third President and the Foreign Emoluments Clause, posted on The Docket.
- Yesterday, Duke Law's Center on Law, Race, and Politics and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project of the University of Michigan hosted the "Reconstruction." @ProfessorRZ livetweeted it. So did @marthasjones_ (#ReconstructionAtDuke).
- Have you visited the website of the ABA Women Trailblazers Project, hosted by Stanford Law?
- For South Asianists: the CFP for the 13th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop (University of Wisconsin Law School, 17 Oct. 2019) is here. Proposals are due April 12.
- ICYMI: Judge Glock’s Lost History of FDR’s Court-Packing Scandal on Politico. Stephen B. Presser’s Tenacity of Transformation Theory, and Why Constitutional History Deserves Better, a review of Jonathan Gienapp’s Second Creation in the Federalist Society Review. Elissa Gray’s These 14 black lawyers broke down barriers and made history, a gallery in the ABA Journal.
