ASLH Themed Virtual Legal History Workshop Themed Virtual Legal History Workshops provide a space for scholars with common interests to discuss or present innovative work in their fields, and cultivat...

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This week, classicist Erika Valdivieso discusses new directions in Latin American classical reception, Virgil, and her new book, Empire’s Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica. Then, a...

“I suggest that the building of women’s organizations through cross border collaboration leads to a total transformation of civil society.”

Amongst the papers of Austrian-American chemist Hugh Rechnitzer I found this photo. On the back Rechnitzer wrote “At Tongku. French Algerians out for a walk. Russian guard over ammunition. German sa...

ASLH Themed Virtual Legal History Workshop Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2026 The ASLH invites applications for Themed Virtual Legal History Workshops. The goal of the Themed Virtual LHWs is to ...

Before Japan surrendered, American aid was already paying for the British, French and Dutch to retake their colonies in Asia.

Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2026 The ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal Histo...

“It seems obvious, indeed imperative, that American research is needed in the law of South Asia.

“Islamic studies in Southern Asia have so far found no proper place in American research.

China has a vast written history that records the countless ways people have observed, transformed, and preserved their environments over the centuries. This... | CUP

Beyond Doctrine: How “Law and Society” Approaches Transform Historical Analysis

Wed, Sep 10 2025, 12 - 1pm | Across the British Empire, from the Caribbean to Hong Kong, colonial engineers perfected the art of manufacturing new territories from dredged sand and legal precedent, cr...

An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.

Tue, Apr 22 2025, 4:30 - 6pm | Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, t...

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In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.