In 2026, I made a resolution: to read through some popular books about the Am Revolution that have been gathering dust on my shelf. I’m picking a book a month, and invited some friends to join me. March’s book is Stacy Schiff’s The Revolutionary. Read with us! open.substack.com/pub/jessical...
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
I would add: even if you don’t call yourself a legal historian but study history involving law-ish stuff, you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and brilliant group of scholars at ASLH!
In #AHAPerspectives, Anna Snyder considers how lawyers can join historians in shaping public conversations about the United States’ 250th anniversary—and reconnect legal history to the story of the founding. 🗃️
I went to his Monticello talk on this and it was excellent! Was really impressed with all he dug up about the trip — looking forward to reading.
Dems I swear, if I have to type “stop” one more time in a reply text I’m gonna curl into a ball and cry. 10 yesterday! Stop sending me funding requests from random state senators thousands of miles away. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Seriously, call the HELP committee members and your own two Senators to tell them to sink this nomination. When I say Means is bad news, I mean *really bad.*
It’s weird to drive on, too. I feel like I’m always in the wrong lane.
Ellis does a disservice by repeating a common misinterpretation of this letter. She is talking about protecting wives from abusive husbands.
Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority
The Boston Globe: “A doctor watches his 28-year-old daughter suffer from long COVID. He clings fiercely to hope.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/20/m...
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #MEcfs #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19
And #HATM on Spotify- Latest episode featuring @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunters: 6/
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This week Historians At The Movies talks about the life, death, and memory of Medgar Evers. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, February 22 at 8pm eastern for GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI.
If you believe in what #HATM is doing, share this and we’ll see you soon.
I knew Judge Goodwin when I clerked there. He’s an excellent, super-smart judge.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
This year, I’m trying a thing. Some IRL friends and I are going to read together some books about the American Revolution, and I thought my online friends — and new ones! — might want to read along. Come join us! More information at the link.
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Thank you to @mike-pruitt.bsky.social for being willing to run in the first place and for his continued service on the county BOS
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
I thought that too
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Can’t Wish Away the Fourth Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
For me the equivalent was taking a course on the First Amendment with Archibald Cox (in law school).
It was amazing then, but now I realize it was truly a stunning opportunity.
Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Differential equations (yep, started out a math major
2. Death, Dying, & Quality of Life (Biomedical ethics)
3. History of the Am Rev
4. Religion, Politics, & Public Policy
5. History of the Civil Rights Movt w/ Julian Bond
A federal judge in Minnesota will consider an extraordinary legal question on Monday: Can a deployment of federal law enforcement officers be so dangerous and so intrusive that it violates a state’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment? Here's what to know.
Lee
"Common Sense"
Jan. 24, 1776: "Have You seen the pamphlet Common Sense?" writes Maj. Gen. Charles Lee too Washington. "I never saw such a masterly irresistible performance—it will if I mistake not, in concurrence with the transcendant folly and wickedness of the Ministry give the coup de grace to G. Britain— 1/2
Rest in peace Barbara Black. I was so lucky to be able to take a legal history course co-taught by Black and Robert Cover at Yale Law long ago.
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