Weekend Roundup

• Mark Tushnet, author of the Holmes Devise history of the Hughes Court, discusses it and other topics on the Supreme Myths podcast.
  

• Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Sheryll Cashin, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and Kenneth Mack discuss Constance Baker Motley (Harvard Law Today). Brown-Nagin also discusses her work on Motley on NPR's Fresh Air, here.
  

• The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, has an exhibit honoring Macon Bolling Allen, “the first African American licensed to practice law in the United States.” (More.)
  

• Harriet S. Shapiro, the first female in Solicitor General’s Office has died.  The NYT obituary is here; her oral history conducted under the auspices of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is here.
  

• Many historical organizations have joined the American Historical Association’s February 9 statement condemning former President Donald J. Trump and his administration's reported extensive and repeated violations of the Presidential Records Act of 1978.  (But wait, there's more.)
  

• ICYMI:  Victoria Saker Woeste on The Charlottesville Verdict in AHA Perspective on History. Nora Weiss, Government Relations Intern at the National Organization of Women, has posted a notice of Pauli Murray on the NOW website.  Documenting Illinois’ first statewide Black political conference (Northwestern Now).  Law and order in the courthouse and jails of Dover, NH (Foster’s Daily Democrat).
  

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