You guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory
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If you're anywhere near Cambridge on May 29th, come see Jamelle Bouie, Martha Jones, Heather Thompson & other starry speakers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets are *free* but nearly gone so hit the link below asap www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...
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This is the 15,000th post on Legal History Blog. No less than at its founding by Mary Dudziak almost twenty years ago, it remains committe...
Excited to head to Cambridge for a star-studded discussion on the US at 250. There is also a brilliant conference on federalism at Oxford the day before, organized by the amazing Emily Zackin (author of "Looking for Rights in all the
Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence.
29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge
More information and registration: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...
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Raffi Melkonian
Karen Tani
I agree generally with the conclusions here but this is a very thin historical analysis — historians have examined the legal background for these claims to “parental absolutism,” with great care, including me in my own first book.
Maggie Blackhawk
Nicholas Guyatt
Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence.
29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge
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Maggie Blackhawk
Maggie Blackhawk
this has got to be the worst time in american history to make the totally sensible and correct argument that we should pay people in congress more than we do
