Saturday, November 26, 2022

Weekend Roundup

  • "Immigration Restriction Then and Now: Re-Examining the Impact and Legacy of the 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts," "an OAH Future of the Past conversation of the contributors to the Journal of American History special issue on immigration (September 2022), is now available on YouTube.  The Hosts are the Co-editors Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Erika Lee, University of Minnesota.  The guests are Ashley Johnson Bavery, Eastern Michigan University; Kevin Kenny, New York University; Carl D. Lindskoog, Raritan Valley Community College; Mireya Loza, Georgetown University; and Yael Schacher, Refugees International.
  • ICYMI: Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh "nullifies 22 old legal opinions that once helped state agencies uphold segregation and bans on interracial marriage" (WaPo).  Another report of the new findings on Geoffrey Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne (History Today).

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