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I was down on the Peninsula for a few days last week with Mrs. E. and her mother (who's from the Auld Sod, in case you can't tell)...

You're aware, no doubt, that Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling book in America, other than the Bible, during the Nineteenth C...

This can't be for real . . . can it? H/T theblogprof .

Having previously reported on George Washington's dentures, I have no idea whether the following is true (emphasis added): By 1789...

Via Boingboing , I found this wonderful entry at BiblioOdyssey featuring illustrations from "a 1753 work called 'Collection des ...

At her site, Wisconsin lawprof and blogger Ann Althouse spots a pro-union protest sign that purports to quote the Great Emancipator: ...

A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals from clement valla on Vimeo . Really enjoyed this . H/T Boing Boing .

Southerners in the antebellum period famously invoked the Bible to justify the institution of slavery. One would think that they would als...

I rarely have anything good to say, here or anywhere else, about the New York Times, but it's been doing a nice job with its Disunion ...

William Lee Miller's Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress includes a nice colle...

Be my Valentine?

On balance, I think single-state secession is probably unconstitutional. And yet the thing continues to nag at me. The Constitution nowhe...

Lawprof and blogger Michael B. Rappaport has an interesting new article out: Reforming Article V: The Problems Created by the National Co...

Back when I was in high school, I was a big fan of Matthew G. Lewis's 1796 Gothic novel The Monk : "The Monk" is Matthew Gre...

Early on in Edward Bartlett Rugemer's very-good-so-far The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War I en...

Knowing how many of you are huge fans of Abe, I wanted to alert you that you can now obtain your very own portrait of the Great Emancipator...

As a fan of counterfactuals, I was intrigued when I saw a post at Concurring Opinions highlighting a "What If" constitutional la...