- “Nativism, White Power, and Anti-Immigrant Violence,” a conference hosted by the University of Chicago’s History Department, continues today. More.
- Congratulations to Jane De Hart on her naming as this year’s recipient of Duke’s Distinguished Alumni Award!
- Good on the Organization of American Historians for speaking out against the deleterious effects of the recent shutdown on history and government historians!
- ICYMI: Local historian documenting Genesee County's “rich and fascinating legal history'” (as part of the County Legal History Project of the Historical Society of the New York Courts). Another report, here. Also, David Cole, Gordon Wood and others on redactions in US legal history; medieval sanctuary, according to the History Channel (and, yes, Karl Shoemaker!); and the Semicolon Case, a Reconstruction-era landmark in the history of Texas election law.
- The Princeton South Asia Conference is happening this weekend. Check out the Matters of State: Bureaucracy, Procedure, and Power in South Asia program here.
