Guide to GW Law History

Guide to GW Law History

At times, the Law Library receives questions about the Law School’s past.  To assist with these questions, the Library has created a new guide, GW Law School History. Use links on the left side of the guide to navigate its contents.  Icons next to a title link...
Rare Books Amplify Learning

Rare Books Amplify Learning

GW undergraduate students enrolled in the freshman writing course Art in the Age of Shakespeare visited the Law Library on November 15 to see law books printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime, and to view the exhibition The Duel in History: Laws, “Codes,” and Censure....
Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 6: Sarah Osborne

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 6: Sarah Osborne

Image from “Witchcraft in Salem village in 1692 : together with some account of other witchcraft prosecutions in New England and elsewhere” by Winfield F. Nevins, 1892. Born in Watertown, MA in 1643, Sarah Osborne (Osburn) was the wife to Robert Prince....
Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 5: Abigail Williams

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 5: Abigail Williams

Image from “The history of witches and wizards : giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Sweedland, France and New England : with their confession and condemnation” by W.P., 1760. Abigail Williams, niece of Samuel Parris’ was born...
Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 4: Tituba

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 4: Tituba

Image from “The history of witches and wizards : giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Sweedland, France and New England : with their confession and condemnation” by W.P., 1760. Tituba was born in South America where she was...