Weekend Roundup

• Call for Applications: the 2017 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program.  "The Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR) is a multi-day seminar in which Ph.D. students receive training in conducting archival research from world-class faculty, researchers, archivists, and publishers. Although archival research is an integral part of many academic disciplines, it is virtually never taught at the graduate level. SICAR fills this critical gap in graduate education."

• Hat tip to @LHR_editor for retweeting this Guide to 19th Century Legal Documents, prepared by the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Project of the Kentucky Historical Society to explain  the parts of typical documents, their function, and where they tend to appear “within the CWGK corpus.”

• Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law School, will be speaking at the launch of his book, The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism, on Saturday, February 4 at 3:30 pm at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.

• Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, is to deliver the 2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on “Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame."

• Have you renewed your ASLH membership?

• “The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project -- in commemoration of African American History Month -- will present "An American Paradox: Enslavement on the Hudson" with Associate Director of Content Development at Historic Hudson Valley Michael A. Lord on Thursday, February 2, 2017. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center. This event is free and open to the public.”   More.

• Over at the World Legal History Blog, Laurie Wood, Florida State University, shares an overview of her new Journal of Social History article, "Recovering the Debris of Fortunes between France and its Colonies in the 18th Century." Laurie is a 2013 Hurst Summer Institute alumna.

• ICYMI: Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University (emeritus), When Truth Becomes a Commodity, in the Chronicle of Higher Education; Matthew Wills on Impeaching History in JSTOR Daily, summarizing Jonathan Turley’s “Senate Trials and Factional Disputes: Impeachment as a Madisonian Device” (1999); per the Austin American-Statesman, a constitutional lawyer is to lecture on the founding at the Smithville (TX) Church of Christ.

• The Stanford Program in Law and Society is hosting its Fourth Conference for Junior Researchers. The theme is law, innovation and disruption. Deadline: Jan.30, 2017. Further details here and here.

• Update: A fun fact from Mark Tushnet: "For more than 125 years, the Senate has not confirmed a Supreme Court nominee chosen by a president who lost the popular vote."  More.

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