Month: November 2012

I see from the Southern Intellectual History Circle page on facebook that distinguished historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown passed away on November 5.  Wyatt-Brown was educated at Sewanee, Cambridge University, and Johns…

Ok -- today in honor of Veterans Day I want to combine a Civil War monument and a Supreme Court trivia question.  I hope I get this question right -- I…

I thought I'd post a picture of the Southampton County Courthouse.  This was built in 1834, three years after the Nat Turner rebellion.

It's been a while since I've blogged about virtual classrooms, and lately I've been wondering about the class participation levels in online versus offline spaces. I've taken some non-law courses…

I'm very much looking forward to attending the 25th Annual meeting of the Southern Intellectual History Circle next February 21-23, 2013 in Macon, Georgia.   Professor Beth Barton Schweiger of the University of Arkansas, who…

An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education's percolator reports that "Top-Ranked Journals Are Losing Their Share of Top-Cited Articles."  Cribbing from the Chron, a study "published in the November…

Alfred F. Young, an emeritus professor at Northern Illinois University and a distinguished scholar of the American Revolution, passed away on Tuesday in Durham.  Young's books include The Shoemaker and…

Greg Alexander of Cornell Law School has just posted a paper on "The Complexities of Land Reparations."  And a lot of what he has to say applies to reparations more…

From an email that I received earlier this week: The UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY SCHOOL OF LAW invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of…

I generally try to stay out of talk of politics (other than nineteenth century politics, of course!)  But I want to reflect a little on the 2012 election and its…