Hell of a week to be reading his new book!
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Hell of a week to be reading his new book!
Thrilled for this!! As a historian working in a public policy department & teaching a class on birthright citizenship, this could not be more up my alley.
"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Title and first paragraph of "Rejecting Restraint: The 1856 Guard House Riot and the Roots of Political Violence in Antebellum South Carolina," by Robert Elder, in Journal of Southern History, Vol. 91, August 2025.
New in the August 2025 JSH:
"Rejecting Restraint: The 1856 Guard House Riot and the Roots of Political Violence in Antebellum South Carolina," by Robert Elder
muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
I erred on the side of embargoing until I talked to presses about the book, and then lifted it once I felt confident that my editor wouldn't mind. Figured it was safer to start embargoed and then change my mind than the other way around (tho my lib. made lifting it easy, not sure that's always true)
Very excited to share that I'm returning to my alma mater, @trinitycollege.bsky.social, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Law. I'm thrilled to be joining an amazing interdisciplinary program at the place that made me never want to leave school.
The deadline for The Center for Civil War Research's 2025 conference approaches! We'll be looking at the legal history of the CW era, defined broadly. If you're working on something in this area, please consider applying!
olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Brandwein's great _Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction_ stands out as one of the most impactful things I read as during my Oral Exams, still influencing my thinking many years after
Trump & his lawyers rely on the 14th Amendment's treatment of Native people to redefine birthright citizenship. In our Essay coming out in the NYU Law Review Online, Greg Ablavsky & I show how wrong that argument is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Kirsten Sword's book is great on this point--so much of the Commentaries was Blackstone trying futilely to impose order on a rapidly changing world, a snapshot of bygones, and we are far too quick to read static and settled law in his interpretations.
My article on the destabilization of the British Empire in the eighteenth century has been published open access in the
@historicaljnl.bsky.social. It brings one of the major arguments of my PhD to print: we need to think about the imperial transformations of the public sphere.
bit.ly/3XXW86z
Kirsten Sword's book is great on this point--so much of the Commentaries was Blackstone trying futilely to impose order on a rapidly changing world, a snapshot of bygones, and we are far too quick to read static and settled law in his interpretations.
Colleges and universities have been early targets of the second Trump Administration. The president of Wesleyan University discusses why he is speaking out when many others won’t. nyer.cm/22Z1hvP
New here. Surely a new place to scroll will solve my problems!