Weekend Roundup

• Lately, the History Office of the Federal Judicial Center has been supplementing its usual tweets with threads on particular federal cases. Here is one on Amistad; ongoing is one on Ableman v. Booth.

• In the New York Times: Jane Manners and Lev Menand (both fellows at Columbia Law School) draw on history to discuss whether the Supreme Court will protect agencies from Trump’s reach. Also in the NYT: Mary Ziegler (Florida State University College of Law) on why “The Heartbeat Bills Were Never the Real Threat to Abortion Rights.” 

• Ziegler also has an op-ed in the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: "The question no one is asking about the Supreme Court and abortion." Also in the WaPo: legal historian Bruce Mann may not be the First Man in 2021, but "losing primary candidates still influence the race," says Anastasia Curwood (University of Kentucky).

• Over at the University of Minnesota's Riesenfeld Rare Books is this Swedish law book exhibit.

• The American Historical Association is now accepting nominations for its 2020 awards and prizes, including the Littleton-Griswold Prize for “the most distinguished book on US law and society, broadly defined.”

• The March 2020 issue of the Journal of American History is out with the following principal articles:  “The Properties of Capitalism: Industrial Enclosures in the South and the West after the American Civil War,” by Emma Teitelman; “Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Food Control Reforms during the Progressive Era,” by Rüdiger Graf; “The Evolution of Environmental (In)Justice in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1900– 2000,” by Andrew Gutkowski; and “Bananas North, Deportees South: Punishment, Profits, and the Human Costs of the Business of Deportation,” by Adam Goodman.

• ICYMI: Henry J. Abraham, a historian of the US Supreme Court, has died (WaPo).  Baylor law, history students ‘relitigate’ Boston Massacre trial 250 years later. “Corpus linguistics” originalism on the Second Amendment (HNN). A University of North Georgia student and the keys to Leo Frank’s cell (Gainesville Times).

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