“An unrelinquished claim and vested interest…”: A Conversation with John David Waiheʻe III, Former Governor of Hawai‘i, on the U.S. Apology to the Hawaiian People
In light of the recent 30th anniversary of the U.S. Apology to the Hawaiian people,…
Browsing: Legal
On “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction”
In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kenny’s article,…
Call for Submissions: Roe v. Wade, Reflecting on Fifty Years of the Battle over Reproductive Rights
Fifty years ago this January, Roe v. Wade became law. Just months before this anniversary,…
What’s in the September Issue of the Journal of American History?
The September issue of the Journal of American History is now available online and in…
Inside the JAH: Species of Sovereignty
“Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, the United States, and International Law, 1783–1795,” might be my…
Capital Punishment and the Battle for America’s Soul
In 1976, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan welcomed the news that after a ten-year moratorium, executions…
Histories of Capital Punishment in the United States
In late July, Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume…
The Courtroom as Legal Borderland Indigenous and Western Legal Tradition in 1900s Alaska
Approaching the courtroom itself as a legal borderland—both as a place where colonial encounters between…
Little Bit Sovereign A Response to Gregory Ablavsky
Gregory Ablavsky, among the leading historians of Federal Indian law in the early republic, does…
“Like a Fart in a Skillet” Trial & Error in Undergraduate Legal History Instruction
In Spring 2014, my second year as assistant professor of history at University of Nebraska,…