Posts by Alfred Brophy

Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County Alabama, was featured James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Fortune magazine was schedule to publish during in 1930s. Unfortunately, they…

No more Confederate flags at Hollywood Cemetery. Said one visitor: “There’s an awful lot tied to the flag,” she said. “But time heals that."

Ketanji Brown Jackson, Prevention versus Punishment: Towards a Principled Distinction in the Restraint of Released Sex Offenders, 109 Harvard Law Review in May 1996 at 1711-28.

Professor Richard S. Dunn passed away on January 24, 2022. He was a historian specializing 17th and 18th century America. He had taught for decades at the University of Pennsylvania.…

Rennard Strickland "a legal historian of Osage and Cherokee heritage, died January 5, 2021, in Norman at the age of 80, where he was the Senior Scholar in Residence at…

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.)