Arizona Statehood Anniversary
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post discusses the 110th anniversary of Arizona statehood.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Category: Collections
Lincoln and Logan – Pic of the Week
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Since Abraham Lincoln‘s birthday is tomorrow we thought we might share some Lincoln-related resources, chief among them a document written in Lincoln’s hand that the Law Library recently acquired. The document is a complaint that Lincoln wrote when he was practicing law with Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880). Lincoln worked with Logan from 1841-1844, following his …
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Civil Rights Lawyer
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
A post about Dovey Johnson Roundtree, a civil rights attorney.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library
Swimming a Witch: Evidence in 17th-century English Witchcraft Trials
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
In recent posts on this blog, I have written about the evidence used in 17th-century witch trials, both in America and in England. In those posts, I pointed out that proving the crime of witchcraft was no simple matter. Rules for evidence in criminal trials were not yet formalized at that time, and opinions about …
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17th Century Wardrobe Regulation in the Kingdom of Spain
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Francesca Marquez, who served as a fall 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. If, in the words of Victor Hugo, “curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour[,]” then life …
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Thurgood Marshall House – Pic of the Week
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The Pic of the Week is of the Thurgood Marshall House in Baltimore.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library, Pic of the Week
How the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 Influenced the Outer Space Treaty of 1967
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
The following is a guest post by Sophia Guido, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a graduate of the Master of Information Program at Rutgers University. When I first thought about the topic of space law, I remembered a scene from Ridley Scott’s The Martian, in …
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Enjoy Our New Virtual Meeting Background Featuring a 15th-Century Manuscript
Posted by: Kelly Goles
Many of us are still working from home or finding ourselves on modified work-from-home schedules. Why not spruce up your meetings with our new virtual background? This image comes from an illustrated manuscript of the Grand Coutumier de Normandie, from the Law Library’s rare book collection. This 15th-century manuscript, written on leaves of parchment, is …
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How Havana Became British … For Eleven Months
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Silvia Lopez, who served as a fall 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. One treasure from the Herencia collection of Spanish legal documents for the 15th -19th centuries is the Brief of Jose Antonio Manso de …
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