Saturday, July 20, 2024

Weekend Roundup

  • New on the Talking Legal History podcast, Siobhan M. M. Barco, interviews past ASLH president Michael Willrich, Brandeis University, on his book, American Anarchy, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
  • Via JOTWELL: Ezra Rosser (American University) reviews Vanessa Ann Racehorse, "Tribal Health Self-Determination: The Role of Tribal Health Systems in Actualizing the Highest Attainable Standard of Health for American Indians and Alaska Natives," which is forthcoming in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. The article includes a discussion of "the history of the legal framework for the federal government’s provision of health care in Indian Country."  
  • The  FDR Library has posted to YouTube a recording of that book event on Diana B. Henriques’s Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism
  • ICYMI: Zachary S. Price says “The President Has No Constitutional Power of Impoundment” .(Notice & Comment).  Someone at the New Yorker is reading past ASLH president Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace.
 Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.