- Congratulations to Samantha Barbas, University at Buffalo Law, on her receipt of an NEH grant for a "sociolegal history of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan." More.
- New and ungated in Studies in American Political Development: “No Bodies to Kick or Souls to Damn”: The Political Origins of Corporate Criminal Liability, by Anthony Grasso, Rutgers University.
- As a faculty member at Georgetown University faculty, this one shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. @dbqur
- In Nursing Clio's The Deathbed series: Julie Hardwick on abortion and infanticide in 17th-18th-c. France.
- The CFP for the next conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, to be held in a hybrid format in Arlington, VA, June 17-20, 2021, is here.
- Constitution Day is around the corner. (We never thought we'd say this, but, "Robert Byrd, would that you were with us in this hour!") Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy is observing the date with The Equal Rights Amendment: A Constitution Day Conversation, with Julie Chi-hye Suk and Katharine Young.
- The United States Capitol Historical Society announced that its 2020 National Heritage Lecture, delivered virtually on September 14, 2020, will be a discussion of “one of the most far-reaching accomplishments of mid-20th century American government: The comprehensive and strategic investment in our transportation infrastructure.” The Supreme Court Historical Society and the White House Historical Association are also sponsors of the event. More.
- ICYMI: A review of James Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model (Concord Monitor). Danielle Allen on The Flawed Genius of the Constitution (Atlantic)