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Scholarship

Check in here for recent scholarship and presentations based on the database. The links below feature undergraduate research drawing on PFF data, scholarly publications offering historical analysis of PFF cases, and community conversations about the project.

Scholarly Publications

  • Jagodinsky, Katrina. 2025. “Special Issue Introduction: The Many Faces of Habeas Corpus in the American West.” The Western Historical Quarterly.
  • Jagodinsky, Katrina. 2025. “‘The Last Rose of Summer’: A Century of Women’s Habeas Petitions & Gendered Violence.” The Western Historical Quarterly.
  • Villeneuve, Matthew. 2025. “‘Habeas Corpus and American Indian Boarding Schools: Indigenous Self-Determination in Body and Mind, 1880–1900.” The Western Historical Quarterly.
  • Young, Cory. 2025. “‘A Slave in Nebraska’ and Other Black Habeas Activism on the Gilded Age Plains.” The Western Historical Quarterly.
  • Jagodinsky, Katrina. 2023. “Sovereignty, Race, and Freedom in Constitutions, Citations, and Corpuses.” Journal for Digital Legal History 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.89667.
  • Jagodinsky, Katrina, and Cory Young. 2023. “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924.” Journal for Digital Legal History 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.89671.
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