Weekend Roundup

• From the Historical Society: The Slave Trade, 1885: George S. Boutwell Writes Home About His Legal Cases.

• 50 Years After New York Times v. Sullivan, a symposium organized by the Georgia Law Review, which took place on November 6, will air on CSPAN History, starting at 8:45 on December 7.

• Over at the Faculty Lounge, Ann Tweedy write about "Thanksgiving and the Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation Case" ("Thanksgiving is always a good time for non-Natives to reflect on the colonial history of the United States and particularly the lands that have been granted by tribes in some cases and, in others, taken forcibly or through patently unfair negotiations.").

• Ira Katznelson, Columbia University, presents his book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time in the American Forum series of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia on Wednesday, December 4 from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  Presentations in the forum are streamed live.

• From In Custodia Legis: An introduction to the canon law materials at the Law Library of Congress and an exciting announcement  about the addition of "428 Native American documents containing constitutions, charters, and acts from the years 1830 to 1960" to the LOC website.

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