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Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.
by Gregory H. Shill via The Atlantic on July 9, 2019
Two people studying law books.

Repository of Historical Gun Laws

The Duke Center for Firearms Law's efforts to catalog the history of gun laws.
via Duke Center For Firearms Law on June 1, 2019
Hands waving US and pride flags during the National LGBT Anniversary Ceremony in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 2015.
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How Eugenics Gave Rise To Modern Homophobia

The roots of anti-gay attitudes lay in white supremacy.
by Hugh Ryan via Made By History on May 28, 2019
1928 political cartoon of Republican hypocrisy for calling Democrats corrupt.

Interchange: Corruption Has a History

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.
by Mary Frances Berry, Paula Baker, Daniel Czitrom, Barbara Hahn, James Kloppenberg, Naomi Lamoreaux, David Witwer via Journal of American History on March 1, 2019

It Will Take More Than Congress to Cure America’s War Addiction

All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.
by Gunar Olsen via The New Republic on February 6, 2019
1850s engraving of the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve understood it, an expression of principle and the rule of law.
by Farah Peterson via The American Scholar on December 3, 2018
Lithograph of Thomas Jefferson

Hero or Villain, Both and Neither: Appraising Thomas Jefferson, 200 Years Later

A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.
by Alan Taylor via Virginia Magazine on November 20, 2018
Massachusetts State House

Civil Rights Without the Supreme Court

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.
by Millington Bergeson-Lockwood via We're History on November 7, 2018

Arthur Mervin, Bankrupt

An 18th-century novel explores how American society handles capitalism's collateral damage — and who deserves a second chance.
by Katherine Gaudet via Commonplace on January 1, 2018

What America Taught the Nazis

In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States.
by Ira Katznelson via The Atlantic on October 5, 2017
Lithograph book illustration of pirates of America.

A Treasure Trove of Trials

This collection of piracy trials comprises documents that were published before 1923 and that are part of the holdings of the Law Library of Congress.
by Francisco Macías via Library of Congress on September 5, 2017

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on August 23, 2017

What the Nazis Learned from America

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.
by Jessica Blatt via Public Books on July 6, 2017

Constitutional Originalism and History

Does the most historically minded school of constitutional law push history aside?
by Jonathan Gienapp via Process: A Blog for American History on March 20, 2017
Two members of a teenage street gang are taken into the 9th Precinct police station after their arrest in New York City.

The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power

The vagrancy law regime regulated so much more than what is generally considered “vagrancy.”
by Risa Goluboff via TIME on February 1, 2016

The Awakening of Thurgood Marshall

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.
by Gilbert King via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2014

Objection

Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 23, 2011

Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller

Was the 2008 Heller decision a victory for originalism or a living Constitution?
by Reva B. Siegel via Yale Faculty Scholarship Series on January 1, 2008
View of Boston in 1730.

Civil Unions in the City on a Hill: The Real Legacy of "Boston Judges"

For the English Puritans who founded Massachusetts in 1630, marriage was a civil union, a contract, not a sacred rite.
by Mark A. Peterson via Commonplace on April 2, 2004
Left: General Bonaparte firing at insurgents on steps of a church in Paris; right: George Washington kneeling to pray.

A Revolution Not Made but Prevented

“The major issue of the American Revolution was the true constitution of the British Empire.”
by Russell Kirk via Modern Age on November 1, 1985
National Civil Rights Museum recreation of King's Birmingham jail cell.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via University of Pennsylvania on April 16, 1963
Image of the Preamble: We The People

On Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation

People continue to interpret the U.S. Constitution in different ways. One way is an originalist framework that favors the Founding Father's intent in 1787.
by Steven Calabresi via The National Constitution Center
Photo of Anne Frank and museum descriptions.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Hiding From ICE

Is it reasonable to invoke the memory of the horrors Frank suffered outside of a strictly Jewish context?
by Emily Tamkin via Forward on January 27, 2026
ASCII art of "We the People" by Paul Sahre.

Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on January 22, 2026
David Rubenstein looks toward the Washington Monument.

When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.
by Michael Powell via The Atlantic on December 1, 2025
Ely S. Parker

Ely Parker’s Ambivalent Legacy

On U.S.-American Indian treaty-making and Ely Parker's role in its abolition.
by Michael Leroy Oberg via Native America: A History on November 20, 2025
Enslaved people working on a coffee farm in Brazil.

Way Down South: Slavery Far Beyond the United States

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?
by Ana Lucia Araujo via Aeon on November 13, 2025
Pink maragine smeared on bread.

You Could Go to Jail for Selling This Now-Ubiquitous Food

In the 19th and 20th centuries, margarine defied the odds—surviving federal regulations, industry smear campaigns, and even a bizarre mandate to dye it pink.
by Jess Eng via Serious Eats on August 19, 2025
Plaque of Marbury v. Madison at SCOTUS Building.
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Marbury v. Madison: Annotated

Justice John Marshall’s ruling on Marbury v. Madison gave the courts the right to declare acts and laws of the other branches unconstitutional.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on July 29, 2025

A Supreme Court Justice Wrote the Greatest “No Kings” Essay in History

This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.
by Gerard Magliocca via Slate on July 10, 2025
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