Weekend Roundup

• How are we only just now learning about Twelve Key, a blog about U.S. archival records by NARA archivist Claire Kuskens? Read about records of claims against the federal government, how to research 19th and early 20th century federal employees, and more.  (h/t @kangborderlaw)

•  Over at Jotwell: Citizens, Aliens, and the Architecture of Exclusion, Allison Brownell Tirres’s review of Kunal M. Parker, Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 (2015).

• Sarah Bond, University of Iowa, on Trump, Mueller And The Ancient History Of Grants Of Immunity and nicely illustrated, in Forbes.

• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host a screening of "Witness: The Legacy of Heart Mountain" on Sunday, December 17, 2017.  “The program will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. A Q&A with filmmaker David Ono will follow the screening. This is a free public event."

• A Legal Gem in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills. (That would be the American Museum of Tort Law.)

• Submit Your Proposals for the 2018 American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting by January 16th!  The theme: Democracy and Its Discontents.

• The Tobin Project is looking for “talented and motivated individuals to join our collaborative and entrepreneurial team.”  It is “currently accepting applications to the following positions: Research Analyst, Economic Inequality Research Analyst, and Case Writer.”  Btw, check out this notice of panels on Tobin’s edited volume Corporations and American Democracy on November 15-16 in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

• ICYMI: More on Paul Finkelman's appointment to the presidency of Gratz College. Ray Raphael asks, on HNN, Are We About to Lose Our Unbiased Census?

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Michael Socolow (University of Maine) on the history of FCC regulations, and Katlyn Marie Carter (Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan) on "secrecy in the Senate."

• Update: We posted earlier about the upcoming conference on religious freedom in South Asia (Jan.8, 2018 in Washington DC, right after the AHA). That conference website is now up here.

• A still later update: Mary Beth Tinker, at a reenactment of the argument of her free speech for high school students, sponsored by the Historical Society of the DC Circuit.

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