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Posted by: Jennifer González
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 escalated tensions over slavery and this blog article tells the story of famous resistance in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858.
Posted in: African American History, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
The Century of Lawmaking website has been migrated to a new, modern platform and continues to offer access to U.S. Congressional history for the first hundred years of the United States, 1774-1873.
Posted in: Collections, Congress, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
This blog article tells the stories of two enslaved people, Thomas Sims and Anthony Burns, that escape in Boston, Massachusetts, and become fugitive slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Posted in: African American History, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering laws of Arabic-speaking countries and Islamic law. Join us on February 23 at 2 p.m. EST for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “The Dilemma of Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Forced Labor and …
Posted in: Event, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
The Law Library is sad to report the passing of Margaret Wood, Senior Legal Reference Librarian, who worked for nearly 17 years at the Library of Congress and honors her life and legacy.
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Anna Price
The following is the second of two guest posts by Rebecca Komathy, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is currently a graduate student in the master of library and information science program at San Jose State University. The first blog post on this topic was published …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Anna Price
The following is the first of two guest posts by Rebecca Komathy, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is currently a graduate student in the master of library and information science program at San Jose State University. The second blog post on this topic will be …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Mellifera, a digital collection specialist in the Digital Resources Division at the Law Library of Congress. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Law Library of Congress has been collecting foreign official gazettes and maintains the largest collection of these sources in the entire world. The Law Library’s gazette collection …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library