"[3] Popular media articles have examined John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson,[4] the history of the judicial-selection laws in Tennessee,[5] and episodes of local history, like the Memphis Riot of 1866 and the racially charged murders of three friends of anti-lynching campaigner Ida B.
[6] In 2016 he wrote a New York Times piece about the history of Supreme Court Justice nominations in election years.
[12] In September 2012 he gave a presentation on "Lincoln and the Constitution" that is preserved at the Tennessee Digital Commons.
[14] Primarily a legal historian with a focus on the Southern judiciary, Huebner has been involved in reexamining Confederate mythology, markers and monuments in the South, such as a historic marker that identified the location of Nathan Bedford Forrest's personal residence while failing to mention that Forrest's slave pen was right next door.
[16] One 2019 letter-to-the-editor in response to the marker called Huebner a "revisionist historian" and advocated instead for marker that honored Nathan Bedford Forrest as "Memphis' first Civil Rights activist" for his 1875 speech to the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association.