One of our contractors, Jeremy Gainey, found a random volume of the Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington passed by the first-[sixty-eighth] Council in the stacks. The book in question is from the Twenty-Sixth Council held in 1828-1829. Anyone who reads this blog regularly may recall that I really enjoy looking though …
This article describes federal observances created by Congress and Presidents, how they are different from legal public holidays, and examples of well-known and unique observances.
The following is a guest post by Alice Condry-Power, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is an undergraduate student studying English at Skidmore College. When you see a red sole on the bottom of a high-heeled shoe, where does your mind go? Many would connect this …
On June 15, 1869, Arabella Belle Mansfield took the bar examination for the state of Iowa and and later that year became the first woman admitted to a state bar in the United States.
Today's blog post describes the upcoming FCIL webinar, taking place on January 25 on Legal and Citizenship Status of Afghan Refugees/Migrants in Pakistan.
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
The Bound Congressional Record on Congress.gov now provides coverage back to 1881, so I decided to see if I could find Congressional reactions to the shooting of President Garfield on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station by Charles Guiteau, and the President’s subsequent death on September 19, 1881. The assassin, Charles …