Weekend Roundup

• From the Historical Society: "What Blogging, Twitter, and Texting Do for the Historian's Craft"

• Columbia University’s Center for American Studies recently hosted “Charles Beard at 100," a roundtable in honor of the centennial of Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United State. The Junto has posted a recap here.  

• From Joseph J. Thorndike and the folks at Tax Analysts, a short movie on the centennial of the Sixteenth Amendment.  We loved its opening: "Did you know it's the one hundred year anniversary of the federal income tax?  Neither did I."

• From the Wellesley Centers for Women "Women = Books" blog: Felicia Kornbluh argues that "the history of AIDS/ HIV is being mottled and shorn of its political meaning." 

• Further news on Paul Gillies’s Uncommon Law, Ancient Roads, and other Ruminations on Vermont Legal History.  Paul Lefebvre reviews it in the Barton (VT) Chronicle, and Tom Slayton published an appreciation in his column “In This State.”

• Seth Barrett Tillman, Why Professor Lessig's “Dependence Corruption” Is Not A Founding-Era Concept? National Constitution Center Constitutional Daily (Oct. 23, 2013).

• Welcome to the Blogosphere to SupremeBystander, “government, constitutional, and legal prose for the judiciously curious."

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.