- From the Smithsonian Magazine: "Meet Joseph Rainey, the First Black Congressman."
- From Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins), in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post: "Black history is often shunned — like the book I wrote." Professor Jones will be virtually presenting Black Americans and the Borders of Belonging: A Conversation with Martha S. Jones, in a partnership of the University of Oregon and the University of Utah on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 11 a.m. Register here.
- Everything you wanted to know about shouting fire in a theater, from Carlton F. W. Larson, University of California, Davis School of Law.
- Here is the wrap-up post for the Balkinization symposium on Mary Ziegler's Abortion and the Law in America.
- Congratulations to Rebecca Zietlow, the historian of the Thirteenth Amendment, upon her appointment as Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toledo.
- Timothy P. O’Neill on "What Biden's inaugural address may owe to ‘David Copperfield'" (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin).
- The lawsuit filed by SHAFR and the AHA (among others) managed to save Trump White House records. Details here.
- Holly Brewer on the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, which came up this week. Also this thread from South Asianists and others.
- ICYMI: Danielle Allen on Prince Hall, forgotten Founding Father (The Atlantic). Jack Rakove on the second Trump impeachment trial (Stanford News). Florida South-Western State College's notice of Professor Brandon Jett’s receipt of an grant from the American Society for Legal History for his digital history project “Lynching in LaBelle" (Florida Weekly). Lucy Cane on liberals vs. the Supreme Court (The Conversation).
- Update: Advocates push for Pauli Murray's place in civil-rights pantheon (11Eyewitness News).
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