Weekend Roundup

"Donald Trump’s lawyer was right: In some places, raping your wife is still treated like a minor offense" -- so says legal histori...

Oliveri, "Setting the Stage for Ferguson: Housing Discrimination and Segregation in St. Louis"

Rigel Christine Oliveri (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted " Setting the Stage for Ferguson: Housing Discrimination and ...

Welcome, Mary Ziegler!

We’re very pleased to announce that Mary Ziegler , the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at the Florida State University College of Law , will...

How Materiality Shapes the Law: From Manuscripts to Digitization

[We have the following announcement.] How Materiality Shapes the Law: from Manuscripts to Digitization August 27, 2015 at Berkeley Law Publi...

Clyde Tombaugh's Vision of Mars (1959)

Elysium and Tombaugh crater are located near the center of this image from India's Mars Orbiter spacecraft. Image credit: Indian Space R...

Wyzanski Speaks!

Wyzanski, 1937 ( LC ) Back in 2011 , I mentioned that although the recording of Paul Freund 's contribution to the Stanley Reed Oral His...

CFP: Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives

[We have the follow call for papers.] Paper proposals are invited for the Second Annual Illinois-Bologna conference on Constitutional Histor...

Tyler on Habeas and the American Revolution

Amanda L. Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has posted Habeas Corpus and the American Revolution , which is forthcom...

Dudziak Named Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance

[We’re delighted to report that LHB Founder Mary L. Dudziak will be the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congre...

Brophy on Antislavery Women and the American Jurisprudence

Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina School of Law , has posted Antislavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence , whic...

Rocket Belts and Rocket Chairs: Lunar Flying Units

This poor Lunar Flying Unit pilot forgot his PLSS backpack. Image credit: Bell Aerosystems/NASA Apollo lunar surface exploration was a race ...

On Cover Design

This summer finds me in the final stages of my first book, titled States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 ...

Sunday Book Roundup

Greetings from The Terrace at the University of Wisconsin, Madison--quite possibly the happiest place to finish up a Sunday Book Roundup aft...

Weekend Roundup

From the Chronicle of Higher Education : Christopher Loss (Vanderbilt University) places our current woes in context. "[F]aculty work...

Space Race: The Notorious 1962 Proposal to Launch an Astronaut on a One-Way Trip to the Moon

Mercury suborbital flights were considered a prudent first step in U.S. piloted spaceflight. The Soviet Vostok missions upstaged suborbital ...