- “Samuel Clemens’ fight for the intellectual property rights to Mark Twain’s works helped protect the nation’s authors at home and abroad.” From Mark Twain & Copyright on Library of Congress Blog.
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- History Departments, Law Schools, and the Abyss in Between, a post on the US Intellectual History Blog by Andrew Porwancher, University of Oklahoma. Hat tip: Brad Snyder.
- Over at New Books in History podcast: Bad Water: Nature, Pollution & Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 (Duke University Press, 2014), by Robert Stolz, "guides readers through the unfolding of successive eco-historical periods in Japan."
- David O. Stewart is to lecture on Aaron Burr's treason trial at the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy at Marshall University, according to HuntingtonNews.net.