Posts by Alfred Brophy

Stephanie E. Jones-Roger "makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery.... Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women…

Stephen Oates who taught history at University of Massachusetts -- Amherst for many years. I was familiar with Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion (1975) and With Malice Toward None:…

Gary B. Nash was a historian of early America and a member of UCLA’s history department for more than 50 years. Born in July 27, 1933, Nash earned his undergraduate…

This news for Columbia Law School is that Jack Weinstein has died. He was 99 years old.  He was a federal judge district court (Eastern New York) appointed by President…

The New York Times.  Or this one, "Penn Museum owes reparations for previously holding remains of a MOVE bombing victim."   (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology.)  

This. I know him through McDonogh's Exectors v. Murdoch, 56 U.S. (15 How.) 367 (1854), which permitted him to use considerable resources to help public school students.   Edward Colston, Bristol,…

Richmond, Birmingham, and Mobile are removing (or had already moved) Civil War monuments.  Confederate General William Carter Wickham -- who wanted to stay in the Union on 1861 and was…

Murray v. BEJ Minerals.   This is interesting.  Missoula Current has an article about it.

John Murrin passed away.  He is professor emeritus history at Princeton University.  He was a historian of seventeenth and eighteenth century America.  Among many pieces, my favorite is Thinking America:…

Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner (Princeton University Press, 2020): In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five…