Posts by Alfred Brophy

Steven Conn's Do Museums Still Need Objects, which will be published next month by Penn Press, is yet another book I want to read.  I'll pick up a copy when…

Last week brought a wonderful volume that I've been eagerly awaiting all summer:  Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors' A New Literary History of America.  The book has about 250 essays…

With classes starting today and curriculum on my mind, I thought I'd talk a little bit about the curriculum of the antebellum southern college.  In algebra class, they sometimes studied…

I've been following now for some years the periodic stories about politicians' writings when they were in college or law school.  Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College thesis on Saul Alinsky got…

Randall Bezanson and Andrew Finkelman have posted a most creative work, "Trespassory Art," on ssrn.  In short they argue for an expansion of the rights of artists to trespass on…

Just back in the office briefly after a trip to Philadelphia.  Couple of really cool things to share right now, before my trip down to lovely Athens tomorrow for a…

Since I'm recycling posts from years and years ago--like "who owns American folk culture?  Parker Brothers, apparently"--and also thinking about issues of cultural property again, I thought I'd blow some…

I've spent some time over the last few weeks talking about the new paper Stephen Davis and I have up on probate in the Old South.  Now I think it's…

Scott Dodson is moving from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, to William and Mary this summer.  From the W&M Press release:Dodson received a B.A. from Rice University and a J.D.…

Resurfacing from work to mention a really great post over at legalhistoryblog.... At some point I need to talk about Mark Weiner's great books (like Black Trials) on race and…