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...