Samito on Military Service, Citizenship and the Irish during the Civil War

Christian G. Samito has posted Thomas F. Meagher, Patrick R. Guiney, and the Meaning of the Civil War for Irish America: The Questions of N...

Kessler on Freedman's Bureau Courts and Adversarialism

We've just noticed that the ASLH's website for the 2015 annual meeting in Washington includes a link to a paper circulated in advanc...

Sunday Book Roundup

Ian Klaus's Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds and the Rise of Modern Finance  (Yale University Press) is reviewed on H-Net....

Samito's "Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment"

Christian G. Samito , has published Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment in the Concise Lincoln Library Series of the Southern Illinois U...

Tillman, "Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship"

Seth Barrett Tillman (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) has posted " Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship ."...

Sunday Book Roundup

The Federal Lawyer  has a new issue, with several book reviews of note. Benjamin H. Barton's Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of...

The Supreme Court and Reconstruction

Leon Silverman Lectures of the Supreme Court Historical Society continue this autumn with two more on the Supreme Court and Reconstruction. ...

Laura Edwards’s Civil War Stories

Duke Today has a lovely on-line feature article, complete with embedded videos, entitled Laura Edwards ’ Civil War Stories , prompted by th...

Sunday Book Roundup

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is reviewed on The Daily B...

Sunday Book Roundup

After a weekend off, here's this Sunday's Book Roundup: The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews   Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the ...

Sunday Book Roundup

Here's another roundup gathered while on the archive trail, this time from sunny St. Paul and the Minnesota History Center. From The New...

Tani Reviews Edwards, "A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction"

JOTWELL has just posted my admiring review of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (Cambridge Universit...

Sunday Book Roundup

Here's a collection of book reviews for this weekend: Tm Weiner's book, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon  (Ho...

Weekend Roundup

The National Humanities Center invites applications for residential fellowships . The deadline is October 15. Seth Barrett Tillman replies ...

Samito on "Constitution and Law" during the Civil War

Christian G. Samito , a lecturer in law at the Boston University School of Law , has posted Constitution and Law , an entry in A Companion t...

Sunday Book Roundup

With recent events in mind, The New York Times  has put together an annotated reading list for " Reading About the Confederacy ." ...

New Release: Richards, "Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment"

New from the University of Chicago Press: Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment (April 2015), by Leonard L. Richard...

Weekend Roundup

Can't We All Just Give Magna Carta a Rest? asks Chicago Law's Tom Ginsburg in a New York Times op-ed . Um, no, replies Wofford'...

JSLH 22 (2014)

Here is the TOC for the Journal of Southern Legal History 22 (2014): 1-300: John C. Bell, Jr., “President's Foreword” Cayce Myers, “Int...

Graber to Lead ICH Seminar on "the Pre- and Post-1865 Constitution"

[We're moving this post up because the deadline of May 22 is fast approaching.] The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to ...