Book Event Today, 4pm — Abortion Law Since Roe v. Wade

Join the Lehman Center for American History and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for an online talk by Mary Ziegler (Florida State University) on her new book, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.  Event date: Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 Event time: 4:00 – 5:30 pm EST Register for this […]

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Oral history interviews with Supreme Court justices

Who will be the next Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy? The confirmation hearings to vet this administration’s nominee have begun. Reporters are describing what went down on day one as unlike anything they’ve seen before in, collectively, years of judicial reporting. While you watch and wait to see what happens, stop into […]

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A John Jay Papers milestone on President’s Day

We’re celebrating the release of volume five of The Selected Papers of John Jay: 1788-1794 (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2017). Jay Papers editor Robb Haberman says, “It opens with the ratification of the Constitution, and covers Jay’s role in the forming of the new government as acting Secretary of State prior to Jefferson’s taking office […]

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John Jay’s Circuit Court Diary

"Your Letter by the Miss Allens is the last that I have recd— I ought to have seen those Ladies, but the Court has unceasingly engrossed my Time– we did not adjourn until 9 last Night– I feel fatigued in body and mind; but Reflections of this kind are not to be endulged– . . […]

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