Month: October 2012

I've been meaning to put up a post for a while about the speakers in this year's legal history roundtable at Boston College.  The schedule is as follows: Wednesday, September 12:…

As some of you may have been able to guess from the photos I posted yesterday, I was in Bogotá, Colombia this past weekend as a guest of the Autorregulador…

Genevieve Renard Painter  of the University of California, Berkeley - Department of Jurisprudence has posted an article, Thinking Past Rights: Towards Feminist Theories of Reparations, that appeared in volume 30…

More to follow . . .   

As further evidence that Kyle Graham's gotten exactly right what our motto should be here at the faculty lounge ("your go-to source for breaking news on Confederate monuments and eugenic…

You know what I think this blog needs?  Some more pictures of pre-Civil War courthouses!  Ok -- so maybe I'm alone in that thinking.  But I am back from a…

Our friends at St. Thomas (MN) have announced their next law dean:  Robert Vischer, who currently serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at St. Thomas.  Here's a link…

Well, here's a photograph from south of the Mason-Dixon Line of a building that was occupied by General Grant for a time.  Where is it?  (And what's its pre-war history?…

From my colleague Bill Turnier's travels this summer: the Boothbay, Maine Civil War Monument.

For some reason I don't know as I ever knew that George McGovern started off life as a historian -- his Ph.D. dissertation completed at Northwestern in 1953 was on…