Weekend Roundup

•  We suspect we're late to the party but want to plug the Oxford African American Study Center anyway.

• The latest issue of the New York Bar Journal includes an excerpt from Opening Statements: Law, Jurisprudence, and the Legacy of Dutch New York, edited by Albert M. and Julia C. Rosenblatt (previously noted on the blog, here). Paul F. Otto writes about "The Dutch, Munsees, and the Purchase of Manhattan Island." (Hat tip: Turtle Talk)

• The National History Center of the American Historical Association is launching an initiative entitled Historians on the Hill.  It aims to identify Congressional staffers who hold history degrees.  The Center asks history degree-holders currently working on Capitol Hill to complete this survey.

• From The Junto: An interview with Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University) on his new collection of essays.

• If you're interested in originalism, follow the link to the judicial politics blog Balls and Strikes, where Calvin TerBeek has used Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to reflect on the health of the originalist project (spoiler alert: he says it's doomed).

•  Via the New York Times: A new report by the the Equal Justice Initiative will change how we understand the history of lynchings in the U.S. (Hat tip: Torts Today)

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