- From Time's "Made by History" section: Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern/American Bar Foundation) and John Fabian Witt (Yale) on "Tax Season and the Making of the American Fiscal State"; Betsy Wood (Bard Early College), "Paying Your Taxes Used to Be Patriotic"; and more.
- "Historians Respond to Federal Actions" is a new resource page from the American Historical Association. Track federal actions affecting historians, get tips on writing an op-ed, and read AHA statements and action alerts.
- Over on Bluesky, former LHB blogger Mitra Sharafi posed an interesting question: "Can anyone recommend work by historians on the theme of secrets,
especially: secrets the historian encounters intentionally or not, and
what they decide to do with them in their scholarship? Any time or place." Check out the replies and add your own if you have thoughts!
- Congratulations to this year's recipients of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, including Kellen Funk, Mark Graber and Martha Jones!
- A recording of that panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week is now up on YouTube. In addition to me, Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo presented. Noah Rosenblum moderated. DRE.
- Steven Vladeck reviews Alison L. LaCroix’s The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms on Jotwell.
- Joseph W. Bellacosa reviews The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States, by Stuart Banner (Law.com). And Professor Banner on Presidents and the Supreme Court (WaPo).
- The National Archives posted the first tranche of records relating to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy yesterday.
- A notice of the memorial lecture Martha Jones recently delivered on her book, The Trouble of Color at North Carolina State University (Technician).
- My Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail has posted "Birthright Citizenship and DOJ’s Misuse of History in Its Appellate Briefs" (Just Security).
- In honor of Law Day, the Multnomah Bar Association YLS Service to the Public Committee has organized a workshop at the University of Oregon's Portland campus on The Legal Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration on Monday, May 5, 2025, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. (Portland).
- Joseph Ellis on "the key compromises over slavery at the Constitutional Convention" (NCC's YouTube Channel).
- BC Law's notice of a new faculty member the legal and constitutional historian Marco Basile (BC Law).
- ICYMI: Michele Chen on deporting activists under the McCarran-Walter Act (Progressive). Steven Hahn on deportations and the illiberal history of the United States (Guardian). HUAC is Back (Lawfare). Scott Reynolds Nelson on Radical Tariffs, an American Story (Perspectives on History). 1,900-year-old Roman papyrus details elaborate tax evasion scheme (CBC).
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