Posts by Alfred Brophy

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…

He was a Klansman.  This was in 1915.  But he was director How Green was My Valley and the Battle of Midway.  Odd and strange.

Kara Swanson, Race and Selective Legal Memory.  Forthcoming Columbia Law Review. In 1858, the United States Attorney General issued an opinion, Invention of a Slave. Relying on the Supreme Court’s…

The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader is Penn State University Press.  It has been working for a lot of years—for years. Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the first German settlers…

Kelley Deetz has an National Geographic about the 400th anniversary about enslaved people on Virginia.  

What are follow four people have in common: George Wallace, Joe Namath, Bill Cosby, George Weissman (the CEO of Phillip A. Morris Co.)?

Professor Kenneth L. Port was Mitchell Hamline Law School.  He taught intellectual property. He was 58.  

Noel Ignatiev has passed away—among many pieces of work my favorite How the Irish Become White.