Season’s Greetings
The Jacob Burns Law Library wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday season. The Law Library is open December 18 to December 20, 9:00am – 4:45pm. The Law Library is closed for the University’s Winter Holiday from Saturday, December 21, 2019, through...
Bill of Rights Ratified
On this day in 1791, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were ratified. The Bill of Rights, as these Amendments came to be known, guaranteed personal liberties with the federal government. The First Amendment alone included the right to...
200 Million and Counting
In November 2019, a milestone was reached in the world of libraries and interlibrary resource sharing: the submission of the 200 millionth request from a library to obtain a copy of an article needed by one of its faculty. The library that placed that request was...
Rosa Parks Arrested: December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey an Alabama law and city ordinance that required African Americans to sit at the back of the bus and to give up their seats on the bus to make room for white passengers. Mrs. Parks was an active...Subscribe by Email
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