going to channel @nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan here and note that this piece conflates the court's horizontal review of congressional statutes (highly controversial and politically contested throughout American history) with vertical review of state law and enforcement of federal law.
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Thanks to Jack Werner for this fun interview on the New Books Network podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/the-work-of-...
And if you enjoy listening, remember: The Work of Empire is available as an audio book!
And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly.
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So Gen. Doug MacArthur's dad helped cover-up the biggest atrocity of the Phil-Am War...even though it was legal, under international law at the time?
See the JAH's latest issue! @oah.org @smh-historians.bsky.social @asilorg.bsky.social @aslegalhist.bsky.social
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This from @jamellebouie.net is so good: “We need not wait for politicians and judges to build a new constitutional world. We can articulate our vision of the political community and work to make it a reality using whatever means are at our disposal.”
Lt. Edgar F. Koehler, U.S. Army provost marshal for the Province of Tarlac in the central Luzon region of the Philippines in early 1900, knew that a Civil
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"Court-packing would create a slippery slope to the destruction of judicial review...To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering. There are also better remedies for various other shortcomings of the Court," writes @ilyasomin.bsky.social.
The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar periodIn th...
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To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering.
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My new book is out by September.
Robin DG Kelley says — "TROOP MOVEMENTS will profoundly change how we think about the 1940s."
This week — PennPress has a 40%-off sale!
[ Use code PENN-SUMMER26 ]
If you may want to do an event, or a book review — do be in touch!
www.pennpress.org/978151282990...
My new book is out by September.
Robin DG Kelley says — "TROOP MOVEMENTS will profoundly change how we think about the 1940s."
This week — PennPress has a 40%-off sale!
[ Use code PENN-SUMMER26 ]
If you may want to do an event, or a book review — do be in touch!
www.pennpress.org/978151282990...
The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar periodIn th...
The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar periodIn th...
