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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Library of Congress’s Baseball Americana exhibit gives me something new to think about each time I visit. Most intriguing to me (well, right up there with any mentions of Pittsburgh, the Washington Nationals, Bob Dylan, and my friend Patti’s portrait) are the numerous times women are depicted in the exhibit. Two things stand out from …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
There’s nothing like a Sunday afternoon baseball game. The stands are full of families, with children carrying gloves in the hopes of snagging a foul ball or, better yet, a home run ball! But it wasn’t always this way. During the early 1900s (and up until 1933), states’ blue laws prohibited baseball games being played …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The ABA publication Insights On Law & Society states in its Winter 2017 issue that “The birth certificate is among the first legal documents an individual might acquire.” In most jurisdictions it’s the only document one can use for obtaining a drivers’ license, proving your citizenship, obtaining a passport… just merely establishing your existence. And …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Once in a while we come across something unusual in the Law Library of Congress. Generally these items are from a bygone era, when things were more hands-on. Curiously, today’s object is from one of the few times when the Law Library was a little more high-tech than it is now. When the Law Library …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Rhode Island became the first territory to renounce its allegiance to England and King George III.
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