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Posted by: Kelly Goles
A post highlighting items from the Congressional Cemetery celebrating Native American heritage
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
This blog post describes women's suffrage in Sweden.
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Robert Brammer
Law Library of Congress Rare Book Curator Nathan Dorn brings us a display of new acquisitions for the Law Library’s Rare Book Collection. In this video, Nathan shares five new acquisitions from the collection. The first item is a Russian work, the first edition of the Sobornoye Ulozhenie or the Ulozhenie of 1649, a compilation …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Forty years ago today, on February 4, 1981, Gro Harlem Brundtland became Norway’s first female prime minister (PM). Erna Solberg, Norway’s current PM, became the second woman to serve as PM when she was elected to this role following the 2013 national election. Norwegian Women’s Suffrage 2019 marked the centennial of women’s suffrage in the …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This blog post describes the life and career of voting rights and civil rights activist Bob Moses.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian of the modern United States focusing on domestic policy and law in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Ryan previously contributed three other posts to In Custodia Legis - Federal Courts, Judge Gerhard Gesell, and the Security State, Simon Sobeloff and Jewish Baltimore, …
Posted in: Federal Judiciary
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Nathan discusses the acquisition of a document signed by Mary Coffin Starbuck of Nantucket and the Wampanoag Sachem, Wunnatuckquannum.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Jennifer describes the Constitution of the Colony of Maryland in Liberia and the history of Liberia.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
In celebration of Valentine’s Day this past weekend, I have once again polled my blog colleagues for some of their favorite movies involving love and the law. As I noted in our 2014 post on Valentine’s Day, we seem to be somewhat jaundiced on the subject of love so not all the stories are happy …
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