Women’s History Month and OER Week Continuing the blog’s new habit of recognizing special months as they near their end, we join in celebrating Women’s History Month. Susan Boland has set up a library display on notable women in the … Continue reading
Celebrating Our Nation’s Foundational Legal Document Constitution Day is September 17th, and it celebrates the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia on that day in 1787. Each year the College of Law hosts a lecture … Continue reading
The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announces the seventh annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor … Continue reading
The United States Constitution was adopted by the delegates meeting at the convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Having realized that the earlier governing charge, the Articles of Confederation, provided too weak a bond for governing the states, the … Continue reading
November 11, is Veterans Day, a public holiday in the United States. Veterans Day was originally celebrated as Armistice Day, and the historians among you will recall that the armistice ending World War I went into effect on the eleventh … Continue reading