Tuesday, March 24, 2026

LHR 44:1

Law and History Review 44: 1 (February 2026) has been published, open access, online.  It is a joint special issue with The William and Mary Quarterly, entitled "New Legal Histories of the American Revolution."  LHR editor Gautham Rao writes on social media that the issue "offer[s] a new methodological challenge to well-trod historiographical terrain."

Bringing the Law and the Local Back In to the Revolution
Sarah Barringer Gordon

The Tension between Religious Liberty and Religious Establishment in Revolutionary New England
Mark Valeri

“They Are Their Citizens and Must Submit to Their Government”: Citizenship and the Creation of the Federal Government, 1776–1787
Jessica Choppin Roney

Popular Government and the Limits of the Law at the Outset of the American Revolution
Donald F. Johnson

Legislation, Regulation, and Administration in the American Revolution
William J. Novak

Review Essay
Something Else: History, Legal Imagination, and the American Revolution
Matthew Crow