Posts by Alfred Brophy

Today I am branching out on the subject of trivia questions.  It’s still related to a building, but this time the building is not a courthouse (or the house of…

Al Brophy put up a new paper: Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke at Harvard University in 1837 in a Phi Beta Kappa address. That address known as American Scholar reaches for individual…

I am impressed with this one: P. G. Monateri, Black Gaius: A Quest for the Multicultural Origins of the "Western Legal Tradition," 51 Hastings Law Journal (2000). His abstract reads:…

Speaking of Harvard ... Thomas Hill, a professor an Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, then to president of Harvard in 1862. Really strange and completely refinishing, also. 

Samuel C. Schmucker Science Center is getting renamed. Schmucker is a eugenicist. Schmucker is quite prolific -- The Meaning Of Evolution (Macmillan 1913) and Heredity and Parenthood (Macmillan 1929) and…

Richard B. Bernstein has passed away. It was my pleasure working with Bernstein. He was a most important and most humble person. Joanne Freeman and Annette Gordon-Reed have excellent biographies…

The last Confederate monument on Richmond, VA ...

American Society Legal History program running from November 10 to November 12, 2022.  Have fun!

Mathews County, Virginia Confederate Monument.

Northeastern University Professor Margaret Burnham's By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners will discuss her book Sunday at 2 p.m., October 16, 2022, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Much of…