Weekend Roundup

It is invitation-only, but LHB readers might be interested anyway: The conference, The Laws of War as an International Regime: History, Theo...

An Oral History of an African American JAG (1943-46)

We recently noticed Major Dan Dalrymple’s An Extraordinary Life Span: A Summary and Analysis of an Oral History of the Honorable William A. ...

Ted Kennedy Oral History Project Released

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (1990) On Wednesday, the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the Edward M. Kennedy In...

New Exhibits of Georgetown Law Library Rare Books

[Via H-Law we have the following announcement.] Georgetown Law Library Special Collections is pleased to announce two new exhibits featur...

Weekend Roundup - UPDATED

On Wednesday, the New York Times published an op-ed by Sean Wilentz (Princeton) on the status of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. In his ...

New Website Showcases Law, Family, and Slavery in Early Washington, D.C.

Via Slate's The Vault , we have word of the online archival repository " O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law & Family...

New Magna Carta Exhibit at the Harvard Law School Library

[We have the following announcement.] If you plan to be in the Boston area between now and mid-March 2016, visit the HLS Library’s exhibit:...

Digitized Primary Sources on Race Discrimination and Foreign Relations

That’s the title of an interesting post over at Balkinization by LHB Founder Mary Dudziak on a series of posts by David Langbart of the Na...

The Pope’s Other Jobs: Judge and Lawgiver

[There’s no topping Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian & Lecturer in Legal Research at the Yale Law School, for timeliness.   Here, via H...

Age of Lawyers: The Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain

Paster Reading Room ( credit ) We have the following announcement of a new (and free) exhibit at the Folger, Age of Lawyers: The Roots of Am...

Lorenz Centrer Announces Website on Social Security Act

We missed the anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act on August 14, but belated here is news that the Pare Lorentz Center at t...

Rakove on the Constitution on YouTube

Stanford has posted on its YouTube channel six lectures by Jack Rakove on “the history and future of the U.S. Constitution” from his cours...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Weekend Roundup

A sighting of ASLH past president Bruce Mann in the Washington Post .   QVC Meets the NCC : "Mike George, president and CEO of QVC, ...

NARA to Release Greenglass Transcript at Noon

David Greenglass (credit: NSA/public domain ) Back in May we noted that Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York gra...

Women as Printers, Donors, and Owners of Law Texts

Via H-Law, we have word of a new exhibit at the Yale Law Library, Evidence of Women: Women as Printers, Donors, and Owners of Law Texts. W...

Nice Try, Abe!

President Lyndon Johnson, December 11, 1963 ( LC ) The other day I had some time on my hands at the National Archives and, as is my wont, st...