Posts by Alfred Brophy

I do not care about Liz Cheney receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal award. I can talk about Louis Lorenzo Redding. He was also getting the Presidential Citizen Medal. He was a…

John Bell was killed in a duel in May 1856 in Dallas County, Alabama, and his son as well, John, Jr.  (Selma is Dallas County.) He was killed in a ...

I don't think so.

W.E.B. DuBois and Professor Ulrich B. Phillips once met? That is astonishing to me. You will recall Ulrich Phillips wrote several volumes on slavery, which were favorable to slave-owning individuals,…

I am particularly sorry to hear about the passing of Professor George L. Priest. He was an emeritus professor at Yale Law School, and he was a professor at the…

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…