Thrilled to welcome Hope McCaffrey and Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes) to the Richards Center as predoctoral fellows this year! Keep an eye out for these great scholars and their important contributions to the fields of gender, race, politics, & power in early America. 🎉

My great-grandfather died in one of the institutions on Wards Island and I've been unable to access his records because of this law. It should be changed.

Great to see 4 members of the Historians Council on the Constitution in the latest JACH: Kate Masur & Greg Downs: jach.law.wisc.edu/reconstructi... Noah Rosenblum: jach.law.wisc.edu/bryces-ameri... Rachel Shelden: jach.law.wisc.edu/finding-mean... Brennan Center

The conclusion to Kate Masur and Greg Downs' article on the bad history in SCOTUS's affirmative action opinion is an absolute heater... Read the full article here: jach.law.wisc.edu/reconstruction… Brennan Center

The new issue of the Journal of American Constitutional History is out. Great stuff. I've already read the terrific pieces by Noah Rosenblum about the 19th-century presidency and Rachel Shelden about the Congressional Globe. Can't wait to read the rest. jach.law.wisc.edu

The conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court has been mischaracterizing history to justify rulings that upend American values, and affirmative action is no exception to this. Members of the Historians Council on the Constitution Kate Masur & Greg Downs investigate the

We thank Pres. Biden for designating the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument. Our Foundation is proud to have been part of a multi-year effort and diverse coalition advocating for federal protection of this site, which now fills a critical gap in the National Park System

Today I had the privilege of witnessing President Biden Biden designate the site of the Springfield Massacre a national monument—drawing a direct link b/w our ignominious past & the current horrors of anti-Black violence like the recent slaughter of Sonia Massey. 1/7

If you're going to claim to be an originalist, you should listen to historians.

In today's Muster, David T. Gleeson, Damian Shields, Wayne Hsieh, Morgan Harvey, and Adam Funk examine the role machine learning can play in Civil War era history journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/08/civil-…

“Many Republicans of the 39th Congress favored and adopted race-conscious ameliorative polices. The evidence casts significant doubt on the claim that the Equal Protection Clause be read as banning such policies.” Great article by two real historians. repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/media/…

Thanks Eric Segall ⬇️⬇️ Greg Downs and I wrote about “the Reconstruction Republicans and the Question of Affirmative Action” jach.law.wisc.edu/reconstruction…

The 2025 meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) will be in Providence, Rhode Island 17-20 July 2025. The call for papers is now OPEN! Please share shear.org/annual-meeting…

SCOTUS's originalist fiction of a “colorblind” Constitution in SFFA has continued to encourage nation-wide attacks on race-inclusive policies, from DEI to environmental justice. New post out on the Brennan Center website here: tinyurl.com/f7tmmbph

Read this piece by Chihiro I on the far-reaching and ongoing impact of SFFA. As Greg Downs and I showed in our new piece in JACH, the decision is founded on inaccurate and misleading accounts of history jach.law.wisc.edu/reconstruction…

ICYMI: Citizen Science, Machine Learning, and the US Navy Common Sailor journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/08/civil-…

⬇️⬇️ thanks, American Historical Association, for highlighting this

Proud to announce "Shifting Landscapes: Slavery and the Built Environment," a groundbreaking 360- degree panoramic virtual tour of Gallier House. The tour explores the experiences of four enslaved individuals who inhabited the house from its completion in 1860....

In memory of Peter S. Carmichael Gettysburg College, the new fall issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era Journal of CW Era has made the article/transcript of 2023's Fortenbaugh Lecture—which Peter moderated—available to read via Project MUSE without paywall for 90 days. uncpressblog.com/2024/09/03/in-…

The fall issue of the Journal of the Civil War Era (Journal of CW Era) is now available. In memory of Peter S. Carmichael, it includes the 2023 Fortenbaugh Lecture roundtable, which he moderated, free to read for 90 days. Read here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53133