English Medieval Legal Documents Wiki

Wow! Hazel Lord at USC has created English Medieval Legal Documents Wiki, "a collaborative database on the published sources of English medieval legal documents, and to provide links to the growing number of online sources currently being developed."

Fighting Bob La Follette made Wisconsin a leader in primary elections

Hudson Star-Observer | Randy's Ramblings: Fighting Bob La Follette made Wisconsin a leader in primary elections, Feb. 1, 2008:

You can thank America’s Dairyland and Fighting Bob La Follette, in large measure, for the presidential primary season you’re enjoying or suffering through or trying to ignore.

La Follette started the fight to nominate candidates through primaries after being snubbed by party bosses in his attempt to win the Republican nomination for governor in 1896.

The newspaper writer's source for his La Follette history is, of course, Nancy C. Unger, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer.

The Top 100 - in U.S. History

Lists and rankings are great for stirring up discussion. Here's The Atlantic's list of the The Top 100 most influential figures in American history.

Political and Historical Quotations

Quotations, memorable quotes at Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations.

My sample searches went slowly and I'm not throwing out my old standbys, but this could be handy.

American National Biography Online

I just came across a citation to American National Biography Online and took a look. It is really cool. It offers short biographies -- by leading scholars -- of over 18,000 Americans. It is the online companion to a set published by Oxford.

The citation I saw was in an article by Barbara Babcock about the origins of the public defender. See Trial Ad Notes post.