., Anyone who has read Walter Johnson’s searing account of the New Orleans slave markets can imagine that eating inside a slave market can have the chilling feeling of eating inside, say, a barracks at Dachau… Slavery’s physical landmarks and artifacts seem mostly invisible in th[e] realm of public history… There is something deeply odd about the absence of a major research and educational center about slavery in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, or elsewhere on the… [read post]

If I were to tell James Otis and John Adams that a citizen's private correspondence is now potentially subject to ex parte and unannounced searches by the government without a warrant supported by probable cause, what would they say? [read post]

He argues that a laptop is like the `human mind' because of its ability to record ideas, e-mail, internet chats and web-surfing habits. [read post]

Ingraham told the applicants that he was not hiring, but evidence showed that he hired Duane Harty on Feb. 3, James Jardine on March 11, and Tom Disbrow and Scott Disbrow on March 24. [read post]