On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. This event marked a significant increase in southern surveillance and oppression of free blacks and demonstrates the very real fear...
Month: July 2013
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ranks among the worst shows on television. Not because of the acting -- though the fact that Richard Belzer's been going through John Munch's.
You know that ongoing decline in humanities enrollments that you're heard so much about that? Well, the World's Most Dangerous Postmodern Opponent of Truth, Beauty and Reason would like to.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. I'll have a Bloggingheads diavlog with Kevin Levin up shortly; until then... Five lessons from Gettysburg The opening blows... A fantastic interactive map from the Smithsonian What Gettysburg proved Making Killer...
1. The law school has given notice to its entire junior faculty, approximately seven untenured professors, that their contracts might not be renewed for 2014-2015. 2. The affected professors will.
A real victory for UNITE-HERE today, as their long and contentious campaign against Hyatt has resulted in a nearly total victory, with the hotel chain agreeing to recognize the union.
As you would expect given the parties involved, Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick's argument that with the progress towards SSM the agenda of the left is exhausted is smart and interesting reading. But I'm not sure I really buy the bottom-line argument: But did you...
Updated below Thomas M. Cooley Law School is the largest in the nation by a healthy margin. The school, which was founded in 1973 by former Michigan supreme court justice.
John Kasich has signed an abominable bill into law: The new budget, which takes effect on Monday,.
I have my wrap-up on the end of term at the Supreme Court. In brief, 1)the Court had a larger impact than unusual, 2)this impact was mostly bad, and 3)bad or (less likely) good it generally did a horrible job justifying itself. But read the...
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain: Financially, they suffer the consequences. In 2011, 62 percent of women in the United States covered by private plans that.
I've lived in and near the proper South most of my life. I consider myself a Southerner, as my mother's side of the family hails from Georgia and I was.