Today I am pleased to present the next entry from the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series. Are you a graduate student (or an advisor of one) who has recently used archival materials, whether in person or online? This is a great way to provide advice for future patrons and to get an early publication on your CV. With that said, we welcome entries from scholars at all stages of their careers (or archivists/librarians) who would like to contribute to the greater good. Please email me at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form to express your interest in
Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Empires are rife with circulation of ideas. But to what extent are the forces that motivate this movement applied from above, by the colonial power, or generated by those living under colonial rule? In an article I recently published in a legal history journal[1] I explored the phenomenon of legal transplantation between local governments in Mandate Palestine, a territory characterized by both colonial rule and intercommunal conflict. Legal transplantation, circulation, or diffusion — the topic has been much written about by legal scholars and
In this post for the H-CivWar Author's Blog, Lois Leveen discusses how she both builds on and diverges from another historian's reading of a particular document: an antebellum will that shaped the lives of two Civil War spies.
Mary Richards Denman and Elizabeth "Bet" Van Lew were both Civil War spies, key participants in the pro-Union underground that operated in Richmond throughout the war. Decades before their espionage, a will signed and executed in 1843 defined the course of both their lives – but in entirely different ways. Early in 2020, I traveled to the library in which I was able to