A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

LECTURE ON THE DEMISE OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA

Ira Berlin, The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2015) ("History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past." Id. at 1. Also, see Edward E. Baptist, "Black Abolitionists," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 9/13/2015.).