The Blog of Josiah M. Daniel, III

On this blog I will post some of my publications and writings together with occasional comments on topics of legal history and, to a lesser extent, current events.

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my new legal history article in American Bankruptcy Law Journal

A nnouncing the publication of new newest article: "Determining the Historiographical Problem of Municipal Bankruptcy: Hatton Sumners...

About the discipline of history

The past cannot be recovered, but let us save what remains, not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in con- si...

The Atlantic's August 2026 article, "The End of Reading is Here" by Rose Horowitch, is sobering

Recent quotation: "There’s a fear among historians, whispered during panels and conferences, that they will be the final generation to...

my newest publication: "The Affinity of Lawyers & History: The Dallas Bar Association’s Legal History Discussion Group as a Case in Point"

First: —from the website of the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, click on this: www.texascourthistory.org/Content/New...

I agree with this historian

https://newrepublic.com/article/198354/history-died-sanctioned-ignorance

My C.V. (updated June 9, 2026)

Josiah M. Daniel, III Historian and Bankruptcy and Legal Scholar E: josiah.daniel@austin.utexas.edu B: blog-josiahmdaniel3.blogspot.c...

In his last days, the great essayist and observer Oliver Sacks wrote these words in an essay titled "My Own Life": I have been inc...

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