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Art depicting Jimmy Hoffa pulling the lever of a slot machine.

What Happened in Vegas

The Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa—with a little help from the mob—built Las Vegas as we know it today.

by David Hill via The Baffler on July 10, 2023

Symbols of the American Civil War and Slavery against the backdrop of London and British Parliament

The Hunt for Judah P. Benjamin, the Spy Chief of the Confederacy

Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer.

by Jay Soliman, Jane Singer via Tablet on June 22, 2023

An illustration of a family tree that is filled with money.

The Getty Family’s Trust Issues

Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets.

by Evan Osnos via The New Yorker on January 16, 2023

Photograph of Felix Frankfurter opening a briefcase.

A Prisoner of His Own Restraint

Felix Frankfurter was renowned as a liberal lawyer and advocate. Why did he turn out to be such a conservative Supreme Court justice?

by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on October 13, 2022

Abolitionist broadside from 1854 calling out the fugitive slave bill commissioner

An Angry Mob Broke Into A Jail Looking For A Black Man—Then Freed Him

How Oct. 1 came to be celebrated as “Jerry Rescue Day” in abolitionist Syracuse.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on October 1, 2022

Painting entitled "Sulking," by Edgar Degas, c. 1870, depicting a man and woman perusing documents.

Rate the Room

The early history of rating credit in America.

by Bruce Carruthers via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 21, 2022

Store window selling shirts and ties mentioning the "Nixon Squeeze"

The Burglaries Were Never the Story

The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.

by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via n+1 on July 13, 2022

A drawing of Blanche Chesebrough with her husband standing out of frame, his hand on her shoulder.

Escape From the Gilded Cage

Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.

by April White via Smithsonian on May 24, 2022

Portrait of Roscoe Conkling taken between 1860 and 1865.

The Senator Who Said No to a Seat on the Supreme Court — Twice

Roscoe Conkling was a successful politician and an able lawyer. But the colorful and irascible senator had no desire to serve on the high court.

by Robert B. Mitchell via Retropolis on February 27, 2022

Drawing of a spiral bound notebook with pen markings.

Fighting Racial Bias With an Unlikely Weapon: Footnotes

A collaborative project by legal scholars sets out to make visible the vast array of legal precedents based on cases involving enslaved people.

by Justin Wm. Moyer via Washington Post Magazine on January 14, 2022

Illustration of two women.

Why Norma McCorvey Switched Sides

The perils of turning the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade into a political symbol.

by Marin Cogan via The New Republic on October 11, 2021

Ahsanullah "Bobby" Khan, wearing a t-shirt that says "Deportee."

Return To Little Pakistan: Bobby Khan v. The Police

An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image.

by Spencer Ackerman via Forever Wars on September 14, 2021

Woman holding a poster that says "ABORTION". AP Images

The Roe Baby

After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.

by Joshua Prager via The Atlantic on September 9, 2021

Carrie Nation

Carrie Nation Spent the Last Decade of Her Life Violently Destroying Bars. She Had Her Reasons.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.

by Mark Lawrence Schrad via Slate on September 7, 2021

9/11 Forever

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

by Joseph Margulies via Boston Review on September 7, 2021

A photo of Harrison Post.

“In 1934, My Life Snapped”

Hollywood has long abused conservatorships. I spent the past decade studying one of the darkest cases.

by Liz Brown via Slate on July 19, 2021

President Truman with Sadie Alexander and Committee on Civil Rights

The Ideas of the First Black Economics PhD Offer Solutions to Our Problems Today

Full employment could solve job discrimination and inadequate wages.

by Nina Banks via Made by History on June 15, 2021

Artistic photo of John Marshall

America’s ‘Great Chief Justice’ Was an Unrepentant Slaveholder

John Marshall not only owned people; he owned many of them, and aggressively bought them when he could.

by Paul Finkelman via The Atlantic on June 15, 2021

Julie and Hillary Goodridge talking to reporters

Why the Marriage-Equality Movement Succeeded

The author of “The Engagement" discusses the activists, politicians, and judicial figures who were at the forefront of the battle over same-sex marriage.

by Isaac Chotiner, Sasha Issenberg via The New Yorker on June 10, 2021

A portrait of Dred Scott.

The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott

By limiting discussion of the infamous Supreme Court decision, law-school professors risk minimizing the role of racism in American history.

by Jeannie Suk Gerson via The New Yorker on June 8, 2021

The Unreconstructed Radical

Thaddeus Stevens was a fierce opponent of the “odious” compromises in the Constitution, and of the North’s compromises after the Civil War.

by Richard Kreitner via The Baffler on May 13, 2021

Activist Donivan Brown on the Walnut Street Bridge.

The Lynching That Black Chattanooga Never Forgot Takes Center Stage Downtown

The city will memorialize part of its darkest history at the refurnished Walnut Street Bridge.

by Chris Moody via Washington Post on March 11, 2021

Two images of the same incarcerated man, one from 1979, the other from 2015.

The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.

by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on January 26, 2021

A television news reporter in a segment from the 1990s on juvenile crime

Superpredator

The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.

by Carroll Bogert, Lynnell Hancock via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2020

Katherine Fite sitting next to Justice Jackson.

“It is History and It Is Fascinating”

Katherine Fite and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, 1945.

by Tammy Williams via U.S. National Archives on November 19, 2020

Chinese immigrants arrested in New Jersey in November 1934. One is smiling, all look disheveled.

An Explosive Government Report Exposed Family Separations and Other Immigration Horrors—in 1931

Lessons about “dark age cruelty” and the limits of reformism from 90 years ago.

by Noah Lanard via Mother Jones on October 27, 2020

The Framers of the Constitution Didn’t Worry About ‘Originalism’

History shows that the text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate.

by Jack Rakove via Washington Post on October 16, 2020

The Supreme Court Used To Be Openly Political. It Traded Partisanship For Power.

The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.

by Rachel Shelden via Washington Post on September 25, 2020

Bella Abzug with a group of women with strike signs.

'In a Perfectly Just Republic,' Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President

Before presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, there was Congresswoman and firebrand Bella Abzug.

by Pamela S. Nadell via The Conversation on July 21, 2020

‘Lock Me Up’: The Last Man to be Arrested for Defying Congress During an Investigation

In 1935, the case went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Senate’s power to jail a recalcitrant aviation industry lawyer.

by Ronald G. Shafer via Washington Post on December 2, 2019

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