Gautham! This is so great! So happy to see you get the recognition for all your *amazing* work! Congrats 🎉

Fun to see you--if briefly!

Excited to read this!!

I'm flying for both ASLH and the event the next week, Anna. Which one do you think I'll make it to?! Neither set of flights are canceled yet, but I might put my money on both...

So excited, Anna! Can’t wait to read it. Excited to see you & celebrate in a couple of weeks (assuming flying is a thing then)!

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Just an unbelievable stick in the mud about everything. Unbearable.

Blackett's book is terrific, but just want to put in another plug for Cooper's article and the dataset/maps he uses to track the FSA, which you can also access here: housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/ugrr/s...

The historian in me says the past is a foreign country; 19th c. federalism was v. different, federal officials are too often selected from outside the community now, & people are less likely to push back against unjust laws and federal action. But my hometown Chicagoans are trying to say otherwise!

Definitely not disputing the premise but also would encourage you to read this important piece by @cooperwingert.bsky.social about how the Act worked in practice: academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

(Oops, just realized your post was from several months ago--apologies! I'm not sure why it showed up in my feed. But leaving this here in case it's useful.)

This may be too historical for your purposes, but I wonder if Laura Edwards' Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights would be useful? Her book traces how the war created a broader conception of rights but w/out a broad application.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Paul Beatty is so funny

It’s such a funny book while also being so true to type. I recommend it all the time to academics trying to get into reading novels.

Straight Man

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