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Cheer Up: I pointed my law students to your "Hebrews are appearing in Court" article earlier this semester, so that's something.

Cheeky!

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Kudos for noting the anniversary. With respect, I found the story to be more complicated, in part by the penetration of a national, competitive, and geographically dispersed market (for soft hats) into a local, protected but declining market (for stiff hats). www.amazon.com/Lawyers-agai...

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The Loft Presents: Danez Smith "Let America Be America Again" YouTube video by The Loft Literary Center

In my courses on law and liberal democracy in early twentieth century America, I regularly assign this reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Im...

They never prosper.

Re you "dissing" Frances Perkins: Frances Perkins to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., April 21, 1959, Schlesinger MSS, JFK Library
On her oral history: “I have hardly any recollection of it now, but I know that it was very informal, very indiscreet, and possibly inaccurate in places.”

Kind the same ones, just a little later on

You hadn’t wrung everything out of it?

Congrats!

Stan Kutler told me that Truman used to do this at HST library.

ASLH's "Docket"? But do let me know wherever it appears.

Where are those unpublished papers to which Sunstein refers, one wonders

My son once asked why chips and beer were a good treat to have in church. The explanation was more complicated than he was expecting.

This strikes me as a fruitful approach to the 250th. Stress the austerity of Founding-Era republicanism at every opportunity and let the contrast speak for itself.

Strong agree

"Thanks for getting over there this AM to supervise"

Here's a coincidence: I'll be quoting from Olmsted, Vaux & Co.'s 1868 prospectus for Riverside in my Property class today.

Play today's NYT Daily for them and ask again

Heroes?

Let me know when you have a post able draft for Legal History Blog

Nope. I am.

Um, marginalia?

As was sometimes sung to each other by siblings in a friend’s family: “I’m so glad you got in trouble!”

So happy to hear that Mary Kelley was celebrated. Her teaching at Dartmouth a major reason why I’m a historian.

True Grit. That first sentence.

Congrats, Taisu

Brian Regan-You Too and Stuff YouTube video by OreosRock555

The standup Brian Regan has a joke about this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=euGL...

I’ve assumed but can’t demonstrate that concern about administering the Securities Act of 1933 was the proximate cause of FDR’s decision to dismiss Humphrey. Landis, a drafter of the act, was consulted on the holding of Myers.