- We may be late to the party, but, wow, Social Networks and Archival Context is a great guide to archival collections. H/t: HKM
- Writing in the Washington Post, John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School) reviews Kate Masur's Until Justice Be Done.
- Also in the Washington Post ("Made by History"), Matthew Lassiter (University of Washington) on "How White Americans’ refusal to accept busing has kept schools segregated."
- "The scholarly e-journal Locus-Tijdschrift voor Cultuurwetenschappen, published by the Open University of the Netherlands, seeks papers around the issue of ‘The Coloniality of Natural History Collections.'" More.
- Law, Politics, Public Health and Deadly Epidemics: A Conversation with John Fabian Witt on American Contagions (HNN).
- Stephen Sachs recalls being in Charles Donahue's legal history course--as an undergraduate (Harvard Crimson).
- Catch the ABF book event for Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq's edited volume, From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions (CUP 2020): May 5 at 4-5pm CT. Register here.
- NARA transcribes documents from United States of America v. Alger Hiss (Catalog). H/t: JQB
- Karla Luzmer Escobar Hernández (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) wants legal historians to use transmedia history-telling to reach larger audiences. More here.
- From In Custodia Legis, a post in honor of National Deaf History Month (March 13 – April 15): Legislative History and Gallaudet University.
- Brittany Hunter of the Pacific Legal Foundation on America’s tragic history of discrimination against Asian-Americans. Noah Feldman on the myth of Anglo-Saxon constitutionalism (Bloomberg).
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