Posts by Alfred Brophy

 My friend (and co-editor) Sally Hadden gave me a report from the ground last week that Harvard University Press has closed its display room.   Amidst all the dire news in…

I've been meaning to talk about how to prepare for a college interview for some time.  And this morning's New York Times has an article on this topic--or at least how…

This morning's New York Timesbrings the sad news that Kenneth M. Stampp, a towering figure in American history, has passed away.  Stampp was best known for his 1956 book The…

Over at propertyprof, Ben Barros (whose scholarship overlaps in surprising ways Justice Alito's work when he was at Yale) has a post on the possibility (unlikely, I know) that law…

Yup--Mary Eastman, author of the important proslavery novel Aunt Phillis' Cabin (notice the parallel title to Uncle Tom's Cabin--Eastman was writing in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe) was married to…

The July 4th holiday is over and this is the heart of the scholarship-production season, so perhaps it's time for  a serious post. Ok--look--the news is really starting to trouble me.…

From this morning's Montgomery Advertiser comes this sad story.   A development in Oxford, Alabama for a new Sam's Club is going to use earth from a Native American mound,…

  Well, it's our nation's birthday and that means it's time for some celebration -- and some fun.  Because I'm in the midst of edits on Integrating Spaces, I'm going…

In honor of July Fourth, I thought I'd talk a little bit about our nation's racial politics.  In particular, about the role that racial politics play in political thought. Professor…

Fast on the heels of the United States Senate's apology for slavery and Jim Crow comes news that two firms in the United Kingdom (Rothschild, the merchant bank and the…