In recognition of Black History Month, this February we are spotlighting a unique digital repository of video oral histories that captures an admirable depth and variety of African American heritage. Billed as “The Nation’s Largest African American Video Oral History…
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HistoryMakers Digital Archive: The Nation’s Largest African American Video Oral History Collection
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Resource Spotlight: Perma.cc
Ever heard of link rot? Or reference rot? If you’ve used the internet, you’re guaranteed to have encountered it whether or not you’ve heard of it by name. Link rot happens when a URL no longer works, instead displaying the…
Resource Spotlight: Restatements, Principles of Law, and More ALI Treatises @ Your Fingertips
With origins dating back to 1923, The American Law Institute (ALI)’s mission is “to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to encourage and…
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PLRC Celebrates NU One Book
NU One Book is an annual inter-campus campaign where we all read the same book and then come together to engage more deeply with the themes, importance, and application of its message to our lives and society. This year’s selection…
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Resource Spotlight: ABA Resources
The American Bar Association publishes more than 1,000 books, journals, National Institute seminar materials and other substantive works annually, leveraging the expertise of its members as authors and contributors. Practitioners today rely on the ABA’s robust body of knowledge for…
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“We’ll See Them Through” Archives Exhibit Now on Display
On April 20, the PLRC hosted a reception for the opening of our spring exhibit: We’ll See Them Through: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in the World War I Era. This year marks the centennial anniversary of the United States’…
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Oh the Irony…Booth and Lincoln Halls
Has anyone else caught the irony currently residing in the west end of Levy Mayer? A single floor separates Booth Hall from Lincoln Hall, and while Lincoln Hall unmistakably commemorates our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln, who besides John Wilkes Booth…
Stepping Out of the Library: A Visit to UChicago
To end the year on an amiable note, a group of our PLRC law librarians visited the University of Chicago’s Law School in early December. We met with UChicago’s law librarians to discuss pressing issues facing our resources and special…
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