- Elizabeth Brand Monroe (1947-2026), a legal and public historian who received the Supreme Court Historical Society's Gossett Award for her article on the Dartmouth College Case (IndyStar).
- Over at the LPE Blog: Serena Mayeri (Penn Carey Law) on "writing a history of marital privilege in an age of retrenchment."
- In the Brigham Young University Law Review: a symposium reflecting on the 20th anniversary of David Skeel's Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America.
- Robert Post, Yale Law School, and Daniel Holt, Historical Office of the U.S. Senate, discuss the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1925 in this recording of a lecture sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society.
- The American Historical Association hosts a Congressional Briefing on the history of vaccines on Wednesday, February 11, at 9:00 a.m. ET in Rayburn House Office Building Room 2044. Panelists Elena Conis (Univ. of California, Berkeley), David M. Oshinsky (New York Univ.), and Michael Willrich (Brandeis Univ.) will discuss the history of vaccines against diseases including smallpox, polio, and measles.
- Via H-Disability: a CFP for a workshop on "Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives" (University of Helsinki, Finland, May 4, 2026).
- The Federalist Society has announced the establishment the Meese Prize for Excellence in Originalist Scholarship. The winner gets $10,000. H/t: Originalism Blog.
- Madiba Dennie will discuss her book The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take it Back at UVA Law.
- The latest Part of the Philip C. Jessup papers is open at the Library of Congress. Here's Rachel McNellis's account. (Unfolding History.)
- A notice of Scott Sandage's teaching on the Constitution in the Special Collections Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Now online from the National Constitution Center: "Lucas Morel and Melvin Rogers join to discuss how African American leaders and citizens, such as Prince Hall, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. have invoked the ideas and principles of the Declaration of Independence throughout American history to push for a more free and equal America."
- Although the event for which it was produced was last year, the American Historical Association has just circulated this very useful handout on the history of the tariff.
- ICYMI: A GWB-appointed judge blasts the removal of the mention of George Washington's slaves from his Philadelphia home (ATL). Relatedly, SHEAR has a tracker of this and similar purging of public history (Panorama). Jack Rakove on Playing the Grinch at America’s 250th Birthday Party (Washington Monthly). George Liebmann provides Historical Perspective on the Unitary Executive (Law & Liberty). Adolpho Birch, the first Black judge appointed in Nashville (Fox17). Noah Shusterman says there's still historical work to be done on the Second Amendment (DCFL). The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America (Guardian). Yearlong project restores lost videos of civil rights foot soldiers (Tuscaloosa News).
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