The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost

Applications for incubators or Works-in-Progress are due February 6th for the AAPI / MENA Women in the Legal Academy Workshop. The workshop will be held April 24-25th in Bristol Rhode Island. law.rwu.edu/events/asian...

2026 Annual Meeting Call for Papers | American Society for Legal History Call for Papers 2026 American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting (November 12 - 14, 2026) The Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the 2026 meeting t...

I'm honored to serve as one of the cochairs of the Program Committee for the 2026 American Society for Legal History Conference in Banff, Canada! The CFP is now available. Please consider submitting a proposal! aslh.net/2026-annual-... #ASLH #legalhistory

Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.

president.yale.edu/committees-p...

Excited for the 2025 #ASLH in Detroit!

Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day

Projects & Proposals Funding Deadline Extended | American Society for Legal History The ASLH is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for Projects and Proposals funding until 9/18. The goal of P&P is the "funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and producti...

Calling all legal historians! The ASLH Projects and Proposals funding application deadline has been extended--from Sept.1 to Sept.18, 2025. If you're looking for funding for a legal history workshop or other initiative (the Call is very broad), you should apply: aslh.net/projects-pro...

Graphic reads "Historians & Their Histories, Episode 17. The Life of John Peters with Cornelia Dayton." To the right of the text is a headshot of Cornelia Dayton smiling at the camera while wearing a red scarf and a black jacket.

On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Cornelia H. Dayton discusses her research into the life of John Peters, the husband of acclaimed poet Phillis Wheatley. Listen on podcast streaming services or on the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...

Curious about the big lecture course that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage, beginning tomorrow?

Here's a peek.

Energy Transition – Usefulness of Demand Response in Taming Grid Stochasticity - Loudon Energy Analytics As the electric grid transitions from depending primarily on fossil fuel to a resource base that is predominantly made up of renewable sources, the matter of balancing supply and demand gets more chal...

www.loudonenergy.com/energy-trans... #energy #renewables #electricity

The latest Talking Legal History episode is up! Catherine Evans talks with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social about Kennedy’s book “Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law.”

Take a listen to the fascinating conversation here: aslh.net/talking-lega...

Congratulations Mandy!

Hope we can talk on my podcast this fall!

proud to appear with other great books in the fall 2025 catalog @uncpress.bsky.social! Read my rural history of American policing and the rural Black freedom struggles that fought for better

Today's the last day to sign up for an SHA summer writing group! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Denied but Not Defeated: Myra Bradwell and the Battle for Women in Law: A Lecture by Siobhan Barco YouTube video by Supreme Court Historical Society

It was an honor to be part of the Supreme Court Historical Society’s series on “The Lives of Plaintiffs Post-Court Ruling"

The recording was filmed in the fantastic studio at @meantomyself.bsky.social's BlushCowork

🎧 You can listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVtn...

#LegalHistory #Coworking

Blush Cowork

Two years ago today, I opened the doors at Blush Cowork, my coworking space with onsite childcare. Today I also opened the doors because I do everything around here.

If you want to check it out or visit or even support a woman who can use our space, go to BlushCowork.com

If anyone wants to divest themselves of computer power cords and adapters, all sorts, please send to:
Blush Cowork
201 Shannon Oaks Circle
Suite 102
Cary, NC 27511

The Importance of Understanding Stochasticity in the Electric Grid - Loudon Energy Analytics Loudon Energy Analytics is hoping to be a catalyst for introducing comprehensive stochastic modeling for grid operators, planners and traders. We are commercializing the ORFEUS Software platform devel...

Fascinating blog post about how the electric grid has changed over the last 25 years and the role stochastic modeling can play today.

www.loudonenergy.com/the-importan...

#energy #energypolicy #historyofscience #electricity #thegrid #STEMeducation #STEM

Can anyone recommend work by historians on the theme of secrets, especially: secrets the historian encounters intentionally or not, and what they decide to do with them in their scholarship? Any time or place

Check out the newest talking legal history episode! Gijs Kruijtzer talks about his book “Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law – 1200 to 1700” (De Gruyter, 2023)

Listen here: aslh.net/talking-lega...

Please consider applying for this awesome opportunity!

Taking the Trade | Department of History About the Site The year is 1742 and the place is Pomfret, Connecticut. Sarah Grosvenor’s wooing by Amasa Sessions has gone awry. Sarah is pregnant but Amasa ...

Also, the "Taking the Trade" website has transcriptions of primary documents about a criminal prosecution over an abortion in 1742 that could be read by a text to voice generator

history.uconn.edu/taking-the-t...

Here is the oral argument recording of Roe v. Wade www.oyez.org/cases/1971/7...

Oyez has audio recordings of Supreme Court oral arguments starting in 1955. www.oyez.org/about-audio

Y'all go follow Ashton! (I mean, a historian working at a science museum?! Why wouldn't you follow her?)

There is a new episode up! I talk with Hendrik "Dirk" Hartog about his new book “Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic.” Listen here: aslh.net/talking-lega... #legalhistory #skystorians

Thanks to @donalcoffey.bsky.social for putting together this great legal history list! He has been adding folks who want to be added. Check it out! go.bsky.app/XJxJpA

I don't know if I ever made an announcement on here, but I'm an editor at reboot (joinreboot.org) now, covering a wide array of tech issues. I'd like to build up a list of people interested in writing. I don't need a pitch or anything, let me know if you might be interested in the future. (we $pay$)