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Posted by: Jennifer González
In celebration of Native American History Month, we have just added 428 Native American documents containing constitutions, charters, and acts from the years 1830 to 1960.
Posted in: Collections, Education, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Jennifer González
This blog post summarizes the history of standardized time zones in the United States, including their development, implementation, and eventual codification as law.
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
Our summer 2024 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog.
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
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.
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
December 16, marks 250 years since the political protest that eventually led to the creation of the United States of America.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
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.
Posted in: Interview, 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: Jennifer González
King Henry IV of England forbade transmutation, a principle of alchemy, in the Act Against Multiplication of 1404.
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library