Walker on Race and City-County Politics in St. Louis

Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law , has posted House to House: Mergers, Annexations, & the Racial Implications of City...

Entin on the Curious Case of the Pompous Postmaster

Among the contributions to the symposium Executive Discretion and the Administrative State in the Case Western Reserve Law Review 65 (2015...

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...

Sunday Book Roundup

This week, H-Net posted a review of Chanelle N. Rose's The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist ...

Konczal on American Bureaucracy's Long and Useful History

The writer Mike Konczal , a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, has a nice review essay in the on-line Boston Review entitled Hail to the Pe...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of The Constitution: An Introduction  by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen (Basic). "Written with ...

"Beyond the New Deal Order" Conference Program

Next week (September 24-26) the University of California, Santa Barbara hosts a conference titled " Beyond the New Deal Order ." T...

Finkelman on "Citizenship and the Constitution"

An op-ed by Paul Finkelman , Citizenship and the Constitution: A Legal History Lesson for Our Times , is out today in the Huffington Post .

CFP: Policy History 2016

[We have the following announcement.] The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History , and the Peabody College of Vander...

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...

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...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice  by R.H. Helmholtz (Harvard University Press)....

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...

Harlow on the Impostor De Arnaud

James Harlow, US Department of Justice , has posted An Impostor If There Ever Was One": The Trials of Charles De Arnaud , which appears...

Daniel on the Legislative Backlash to the CIO

Anthony Michael Daniel , a doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia University , has posted State-Level Origins of the United Sta...

CFP: Does Democracy Translate across Borders?

[We have the following call for papers.] America has long promoted democracy as the optimal political system for all nations.  Is this right...

Sunday Book Roundup

Over at HNN there is a review of The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment  by Maurizio Valsania (UVA Press). ...

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...

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: Ziegler's "After Roe"

Just out from the Harvard University Press is After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate , by Mary Ziegler , the Stearns Weaver Mill...