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Charlie Rose's Interviews of Gordon-Reed
In light of Annette Gordon-Reed's tremendous accomplishments, LHB readers might be interested in these interviews of the professor of law and history by Charlie Rose.
Robert Jackson's Memo to FDR on Gobitis
On June 3, 1940, then-Attorney General Robert Jackson authored a memo to President Franklin Roosevelt, as was his practice, discussing the various Supreme Court decisions in which the United States had an interest. Jackson singled out Minersville School District v. Gobitis, even though the United...
Public Presidential Documents Online
The University of California, Santa Barbara has a website for The American Presidency Project with a nifty search engine if you are looking for public presidential documents online. The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs has an ongoing multimedia project involving presidents....
What Comes Naturally
I just received my copy of What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon. The book recently won the Organization of American Historians' Ellis W. Hawley Prize for best book on the economy, politics, or institutions of the United...
Examining Archives in Presidential Libraries
I thought I'd follow up Emily Kadens's excellent posts on working in archives (for instance, here and here) with some thoughts about conducting archival research in presidential libraries. So far I have visited two--Franklin D. Roosevelt's in Hyde Park and Lyndon B. Johnson's in Austin. It...