Posts by Alfred Brophy

One of my areas of interest is multi-generational studies of families.  Francis Daniel Pastorius to Jaco Pastorius, for instance; Theodore Sedgwick to Kyra Sedgwick for another (and Catharine Sedgwick, too).  And,…

There's a very short slice of a speech that Judge Sotomayor gave in February 2005 at Duke making the rounds on the internet, in which she says something that some…

Many, many congratulations to Judge Sotomayor on her nomination to the United States Supreme Court.  The confirmation hearings promise a robust debate on the role of empathy and on the role…

Update:  Neither of the following count as early scholarship, but ... in honor of her impending nomination to be Supreme Court Justice, here's a link to Judge Sotomayor's 2004 tribute to…

Yesterday's Birmingham News ran a story by Erin Stock about a most, most extraordinary case: that of Vietnam Veteran and hero Bill Terry.  Mr. Terry died in 1969 in Vietnam, ...

Since this is Memorial Day weekend, I thought that I'd dip into my stock of photos and post something from a National Cemetery.  Close readers of the blogosphere (and my…

In Thursday morning's Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Shailagh Murray suggest that two former law professors, Diane Wood and Elena Kagan, are emerging are front-runners for nomination to the Supreme Court.…

As I'm sitting here doing a little work on things antebellum, I see the sad news that David Herbert Donald has passed away.  Just so happens that his charming Lincoln is…

Err, that's President Obama's mother's next book.  The Duke Chronicle is reporting that Duke University Press--well known for its anthropology books--will publish a revised version of Ann Dunham's dissertation.From the…

Over at Co-Op, Kaimi Wenger's polling about readers' knowledge of events during the Jim Crow era.