LHR 44:1

Law and History Review 44: 1 (February 2026) has been published, open access, online. It is a joint special issue with The William and Mary Quarterly , entitled "New Legal Histories of the American Revolution." LHR editor Gautham Rao writes on social media that the issue "offer[s] a new methodological challenge to well-trod historiographical terrain."

Bringing the Law and the Local Back In to the Revolution Sarah Barringer Gordon

The Tension between Religious Liberty and Religious Establishment in Revolutionary New England Mark Valeri

“They Are Their Citizens and Must Submit to Their Government”: Citizenship and the Creation of the Federal Government, 1776–1787 Jessica Choppin Roney

Popular Government and the Limits of the Law at the Outset of the American Revolution Donald F. Johnson

Legislation, Regulation, and Administration in the American Revolution William J. Novak

Review Essay Something Else: History, Legal Imagination, and the American Revolution Matthew Crow