Thank You, Sally Gordon! And Welcome, . . . Ms. Peppercorn?

We at LHB are so grateful to Sarah Barringer Gordon for joining us as a guest blogger these past weeks. She has responded to common queries about legal historical publishing, opened up a conversation about the entry-level hiring market, reminded us of the joys of reading outside of our subject areas, and much more!

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Readers have responded so enthusiastically to her posts that we have invited her to stay on as a sort of advice columnist in residence -- someone to respond to questions about everything from applying to graduate school to publishing a third or fourth book.

She is doing this for nothing -- a peppercorn consideration, as they say in contract law -- and offers her advice with the proverbial grain of salt. With a nod to advice columnists past ("Dear Abby," "Dorothy Dix"), we will title these occasional posts "Ms. Peppercorn Considers."

If you have a question that you'd like to see addressed on the blog, send a message to the blog email address.

Welcome, Sally Gordon!

We are delighted to announce that Sarah Barringer Gordon will join us as a guest blogger for the month of August. She hails from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her M.A.R. (ethics) from Yale Divinity School.

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Professor Gordon is the author of The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2010). Her work has also appeared in the Cambridge History of American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), the Journal of American History, the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and American Quarterly, among other outlets. We are looking forward to hearing about her current book project, which explores the connections between religion and property across American national history. 

Her service to the profession is equally impressive. She is co-editor (with Holly Brewer) of Studies in Legal History, the book series of the American Society for Legal History. She is also on the board of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the editorial board of the Law & History Review, and the advisory board of the National Constitution Center. In 2012, she was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. At Penn, she directs the J.D./Ph.D. program in American Legal History and helps run the Legal History Consortium.

Welcome, Sally Gordon! 

Environment, Law and History

A hearty welcome to the blogosphere to Environment, Law, and History, run by Sarah Milov and David Schorr.  They explain:

The connections between the environment, law, and history are deep and pervasive. Many of us, from many disciplines – law, history, geography, and environmental studies to name a few – have been working at the intersections of these fields for some time, but have had no common forum for exchanging views and information. This blog aims to enable such exchanges, allowing us to share ideas and learn about scholarship, conferences, and opportunities for collaboration with colleagues around the world.

Just up is a post on law-related papers at the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.