Month: July 2018

Today is the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are ...

In 1960, Frank Sinatra recorded this campaign song for JFK. My parents had the 45 and we played it pretty often (I was eleven).  Can't explain why I just remembered…

Dust My Broom was first recorded by the Mississippi Delta's great Robert Johnson in 1936.  Fifteen years later, Chicago's Elmore James took Johnson's solo number and turned it into an ...

On this day in 1859, the Oberlin Rescuers -- including Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell -- were freed from jail after 83 days of detention.  Langston and Bushnell had been…

In 1859, Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell were convicted in federal court for the crime of rescuing a fugitive from slave hunters.  My new article in The Conversation makes the ...

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The Journal of African American History has a new review of my book, The "Colored Hero" of Harpers Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery. The review is very favorable, but…

This just in: The AALS Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process is pleased to announce that it will host a “New Voices in Legislation” program during the…

This just in: Founded in 1893, the Salmon P. Chase College of Law has for 125 years provided service to students and the legal community throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky ...

O Canada, original English lyrics:  French Lyrics:  New gender neutral English lyrics, official as of this year:  English translation of French lyrics (always gender neutral):  Yiddish   Waking up Canadian