Reboot City

I must admit to having succumbed to seeing the new Spiderman movie and enjoying it although I still don't think it beats the Toby Maguire version.  And of course the…
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Antebellum Literary Address Trivia

Digging deep into my stock of photographs.  What's the building at right and what famous pre-Civil War literary address was given there?  (Not the best job of cropping the photo…
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Buck v. Bell Trivia

Seeing Dan Ernst's note at legal history blog about Victoria Nourse's article, "Buck v. Bell: A Constitutional Tragedy from a Lost World," reminds me that I want to ask a…
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Over the Borderline

I generally refrain from posting on work that I don't have at least some expertise in, but I've been reading Greg Duhl's courageous (that's one of the words for it,…
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In the Shadow of the Gallows

University of Toronto English Professor Jeannine DeLombard's most recent book, In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity, has just appeared from the University of Pennsylvania Press.  Cribbing…
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SLU’s Interim Dean

There's been extensive coverage already of the happenings at St. Louis University over at Brian Leiter's shop (and also at Paul Caron and Legal History Blog).  I did, however, want to…
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Faculty Hiring: DePaul Law

Here's another announcement: The DePaul University College of Law, located in the heart of Chicago, invites applications from both entry-level and lateral candidates for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions to start…
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