Richard N. Current (1912-2012)

I learn from R.B. Bernstein that Richard N. Current passed away last week.  He was a distinguished historian of the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century, most notably of Lincoln.  Many years ago I used his biography of John C. Calhoun.  (I love internet archive!)  The work I know best of Current is his study of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, published in 1990.  All of this reminds me that one of these days I'm going to get back to talking about jurisprudence in college literary addresses in the North, to go along with the southern literary addresses I've been mining of late.  (Some preliminary thoughts, now more than a decade old, are here.)