Weekend Roundup

• Greg Kaster, Gustavus Adolphus University, reflects on his participation in the NEH Summer Institute on Slavery and the Constitution, directed by Paul Benson and Paul Finkelman.
  

•  Ronald Collins & David Hudson have a special issue of First Amendment News devoted to 38 Women Who Argued First Amendment Free Expression Cases in the Supreme Court: 1880-2018.  The essay draws upon studies by Julie Silverbrook, Emma Shainwald, Marlene Trestman, and Clare Cushman.  And don't forget Mary L. Clark’s "Women as Supreme Court Advocates, 1879-1979,” Journal of Supreme Court History (2005).
  

•  ICYMI:  Josh Blackman & James C. Phillips on Corpus Linguistics and the Second Amendment on Harvard Law Review Blog.

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" Section: Torrie Hester (Saint Louis University), Mary E. Mendoza (Penn State University), Deirdre Moloney (author of National Insecurities) and Mae Ngai (Columbia University) comment on a new proposal from the Trump Administration that would essentially punish legal immigrants for being poor; Julian Maxwell Hayter (University of Richmond) on the controversies over Confederate monuments and why "our history educations must be better"; Rachel Louise Moran (University of Texas) discusses why American policy is leaving millions hungry; and much more.  

• Past Punditry is streaming a new podcast, A12. Created by UVA Miller Center historian Nicole Hemmer, the podcast is about what happened last August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the history behind it. 

• Update: Gerard N. Magliocca and Kurt Lash at the National Constitution Center on John Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment.

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