In connection with a recent piece co-authored with Erica Caple James entitled “Black Histories Matter” that appears in the current issue of Perspectives, the AHA newsletter, here are photos (by ECJ) of the Somers, CT replica of Jefferson’s Monticello. The article includes a photo of the original.
My review of Ronald Johnson’s excellent and important book Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance (University of Georgia Press, 2014), for The Journal of Southern History, vol. LXXXI, no. 2, May 2015, pp. 448-450.
Just published in the Southern California Law Review, my essay on empire, immigration, Islam, and the legalization of gay marriage in France and the United States. The full cite is 88 S. Cal. L. Rev. 511 (2015).
Here is a recent interview with “Faculti” on my book The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vbls4dMvtU
About to come out in volume 12 of First Amendment Law Review, my essay on “Religious Liberty and the Financial War on Terror.” You can find a “draft” typeset version here; for the official and final published version please see FALR. N.b.: the article deals with some highly controversial cases involving Muslim charities in the post-9/11 era. Please read before drawing conclusions.