Weekend Roundup

• In the Washington Post's "Made by History" section: Lauren McIver Thompson (Kennesaw State University/Georgia State University College of Law), "A century ago, women fought for access to contraception. The Trump administration threatens to undo their work."

• From the blog Boston 1775: "Finding Revolutionary Massachusetts Legislative Records Online." (h/t: @lizcovart) 

• The Library of Congress Blog has a lovely interview with Ross Davies, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, on his use of the Manuscript Division’s collections, including a picture of his class proudly displaying their LC reader identification cards.

• Over at the Faculty Lounge, Al Brophy has the call for papers for The Thirteenth Amendment and Economic Justice, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, March 2-3, 2018.

•  Who knew?  An app version of the Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation.

• Although it won’t be out until May 2018, we noted with interest the Yale University Press’s copy for the Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History, by the late Morris L. Cohen and John B. Nann.

• From the New Orleans Advocate: University of New Orleans historian Raphael Cassimere, Jr. recalls his role in civil rights movement in New Orleans

• ICYMI: Anders Winroth is one of the historians developing a new series of global history courses at Yale, reports the Yale Daily News.  The North Carolina Historical Commission has delayed discussion of the removal of Confederate monuments from state property in downtown Raleigh, reports the Progressive Pulse.  Huff Po reports that the children of Gordon Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu and Minoru Yasui have filed an amicus brief challenging the travel ban.  The Law Society of Upper Canada is considering changing its “anachronistic” name, reports the National Post.  NYU Law has a great appreciation of the late Norman Dorsen by Atticus Gannaway.  H/t: Brad Snyder.

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