Weekend Roundup

• The National History Center's next Congressional briefing will be on the history of health care in the U.S.  It will be Friday, June 28, 2019 from 10:00 am-11:00 am, in the Gold Room, Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168.  The speakers will be Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University, and Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University. Alan Kraut, American University, will moderate.  Saith the NHC: “Why is the American health care system so costly, complex, and challenging for those who seek to legislate improvements in access to and quality of care? The answers are rooted in the historical forces that gave rise to the current system. Two leading authorities on the history of American health care will explain how we got where we are today.” 

• Deadline approaching:  Applications for ASLH Cromwell Research Fellowship grants for early career scholars are due on July 1.

• Over at Jotwell, Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University, has posted The Federal Trade Commission as National Nanny, her appreciation of Rachel Louise Moran's "Fears of a Nanny State: Centering Gender and Family in the Political History of Regulation," in Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century 317 (Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams, eds., 2019).

• ICYMI:  The Supreme Court Rulings That Have Shaped Gay Rights in America (History Channel).  Why birthright citizenship is crucial to democratic governance, by Marixa Lasso, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, on WaPo’s "Made by History."  Also on WaPo's MbH: Karin Wulf, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and William & Mary, on What Naomi Wolf and Cokie Roberts teach us about the need for historians.

• And at the Conversation: Treva B. Lindsey, The Ohio State University provides this concise history of the US abortion debate, while Mark Fathi Massoud, UC Santa Cruz offers insights into the interaction between colonialism and Islamic law in Sudan.

• Update: Anna Jarvis interviewed on winning the R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship to research her great-great grandfather, Edward Jarvis, chief justice of the supreme court of Prince Edward Island (CBC).

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