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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Nathan discusses trial by ordeal and the dangers of too much judicial combat in the works of Friedrich Majer
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
The United States has often been called “a nation of joiners.” For nearly three centuries, Americans have created and joined voluntary associations to pursue their shared goals and to meet the needs of their communities. Even today, voluntary associations are ubiquitous in American society, occupying a central place in the social and communal lives of …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Nathan discusses Joshua Montefiore, the first Jewish person to publish a law book in the United States.
Posted in: Collections, Jewish American History
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Last year, to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact, I wrote a post on this blog about the Compact’s origins and legacy in early American history. In that post, I wrote that the Compact served as a place-holder to acknowledge that the colonists were operating outside the region of North America that their …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
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: Nathan Dorn
Nathan Dorn describes a new acquisition - the Henry Clay draft of Article IX of the Treaty of Ghent.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This post commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month by recounting the story of the first Jewish person to be elected to a popular assembly in American history, Francis Salvador
Posted in: Jewish American History, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
The blog post describes the murder of Penowanyanquis and the resulting criminal trial.
Posted in: Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Saturday marked the 250th anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act, one of colonial America’s most important expressions of protest against the policies of the British government in London. The focus of the objections that the House of Burgesses raised in the Virginia Resolves was the Stamp Act of 1765, a piece …
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