It’s Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday!

Abraham Lincoln was born OTD in 1809.  Below is a short bibliography of works on the 16th President in law, social science,and popular culture. Joern Benzinger, Popular Media Memory: Abraham Lincoln in the Twenty-First...

Happy Birthday, E. T. A Hoffmann!

Born January 24, 1776, Ernest Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (later Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), in Koenigsberg, Prussia, to Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann, a lawyer, and Lovisa Doerffer. Hoffmann became a lawyer as well, in government service...

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!

Happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe, born OTD in 1809 in Boston, MA. Here’s a short bibliography of secondary works on law and literature in Poe.   Cleman, John, Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe...