Weekend Roundup

• Congratulations to Myisha Eatmon (University of South Carolina), who will join the departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University! (via Twitter)

• From the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Orville Vernon Burton (Clemson University) and Armand Derfner (Charleston School of Law), "Texas’s new attempt to circumvent the Constitution resurrects an old tactic"; Carole Joffe (University of California, San Francisco), "Failing to embed abortion care in mainstream medicine made it politically vulnerable."
  

• "Nine decades later, W.E.B. Du Bois’s work faces familiar criticisms": Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University, on Black Reconstruction (WaPo).

• "Rescuing MLK and his Children’s Crusade": a excerpt from the forthcoming Civil Rights Queen:  Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard University (Harvard Gazette).  
  

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  New online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core: Hanging Matters: Petty Theft, Sentence of Death, and a Lost Statute of Edward I, by Henry Summerson.

• George William Van Cleve explores “what he sees as the flaws in the United States Constitution,” in conversation with William Treanor, dean of Georgetown Law, in a virtual program was hosted by James Madison’s Montpelier in Virginia.
  

• From In Custodia Legis, news of a new Library of Congress acquisition: "A 14th-Century Manuscript of Registrum Brevium."

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