- On the New Books Network, Derek Litvak, a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Maryland, interviews Matthew Crow, Associate Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, about his book Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
- On September 3, the 124th anniversary of his birth, the Harvard Law School held a symposium on Charles Hamilton Houston. A full report in Harvard Law Today and a link to a recording of the symposium are here.
- Thanks to Brian L. Frye, we just noticed the open source casebook Legal History: History of American Economic Regulation (Spring 2015), by Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School, who happens to have been one of the speakers at the aforementioned symposium.
- We note belatedly that the Wheeling Academy of Law and Science Foundation and other sponsors held the symposium "Women in Labor History” last weekend in Wheeling, WV.
- ICYMI: John Locke on “Reasons for Tolerateing [sic] Papists Equally with Others" (WSJ via HNN). John Fabian Witt on Tony Kronman on renaming Yale's Calhoun College and Kronman's response (Yale Daily News). William Dalrymple in the NYT on the East India Company as The Original Evil Corporation. Colin Gordon, University of Iowa, in the Jacobin on The New Deal State and Segregation.
- In WaPo’s “Made by History,” Jamie Pietruska, Rutgers University, on Why President Trump’s Sharpied weather map was likely a crime--and should be.
