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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 originally had this queued up for mid-June, but we just saw A Complete Unknown, which I recommend, so I decided to rearrange the schedule.] "Girl from the North Country" is on ...

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,…

From a recent email message: The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law is pleased to announce its first annual Business and Tax Roundtable…

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…