Thank You, Mary Ziegler!

Thank you, Mary Ziegler, for a series of posts as a guest blogger this month relating to her book After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortio...

What If a Crew Became Stranded On Board the Skylab Space Station? (1972)

Image credit: NASA On 28 July 1973, the Skylab 3 crew of Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, and Owen Garriott lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy...

A Symposium on Mendez v. Westminster

We've noted the publication of Philippa Strum's book on Mendez v. Westminster and an exhibit on the litigation in the federal cour...

Ginsburg on Papal Printing Privileges as Proto-Property

Who says alliteration is dead?  Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School has posted Proto-Property in Literary and Artistic Works: Sixteenth-C...

Writing Abortion History

As I end my time on Legal History Blog, there is another issue worth discussing: the challenges of writing the history of an issue as divisi...

Sunday Book Roundup

The New Rambler  has a review of Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice  by R.H. Helmholtz (Harvard University Press)....

Weekend Roundup

Amici, the podcast series of nycourts.gov, has an interview with Marilyn Marcus , executive director of the Historical Society of the New ...

A Forgotten Pioneer of Mars Resource Utilization (1962-1963)

Sixty-five years ago: the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A captured German V-2 with an American WAC Corporal sounding roc...

Triangle Legal History Seminar, 2015-16

Via Al Brophy over at the Faculty Lounge , we have the schedule for the Triangle Legal History Seminar for 2015-16.  Al writes that the sem...

Price on "Health Security" and Mentally Ill Immmigrants

Polly J. Price, Emory University School of Law , has posted Infecting the Body Politic: Observations on Health Security and the 'Undesi...

More on the History of the Carceral State

We previously noted the JAH 's special issue on the history of carceral state .  That issue is now freely available on line .  Also, the...

Compromise and Marital-Status Discrimination

At the heart of After Roe  is a story about when and why conflict about abortion and gender escalated. Before writing the book, I believed t...

Laura Edwards’s Civil War Stories

Duke Today has a lovely on-line feature article, complete with embedded videos, entitled Laura Edwards ’ Civil War Stories , prompted by th...

Michigan's Legal History Workshop, Fall 2015

Here’s the Fall 2005 lineup for the Legal History Workshop jointly sponsored by the University of Michigan Law School and University of Mich...

Harder and Patten, "Patriation and Its Consequences: Constitution Making in Canada"

New from the University of British Columbia Press: Patriation and Its Consequences: Constitution Making in Canada (June 2015), by Lois Har...

RFP: A History of the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

[We have the following Request for Proposals for a "book on the history of the creation and the first 25 years of the U.S. Court of App...

Eaton on Spectral Evidence at Salem, 1692

Matteson's "Trial of George Jacobs" ( LC ) Rebecca Eaton has posted her LL.B honors paper at the Victoria University of Welli...

Cohen on Judge Ginsburg's Seg Academy Case

My Georgetown Law colleague Stephen B. Cohen has posted “Seg Academies,” Taxes, and Judge Ginsburg , which is forthcoming in The Legacy o...

Age of Lawyers: The Roots of American Law in Shakespeare's Britain

Paster Reading Room ( credit ) We have the following announcement of a new (and free) exhibit at the Folger, Age of Lawyers: The Roots of Am...

Porter, "Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846"

New from Texas Tech University Press: Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846 , by Amy M. Porter (Texas A&M Unive...

Soucek on the Cold War and the 1965 Immigration Act

Brian Soucek, University of California, Davis School of Law, has posted The Last Preference: Refugees and the 1965 Immigration Act which i...

Priceless treasure hoard found in 1st century grave of Sarmatian woman in Russia

Priceless treasure hoard found in 1st century grave of Sarmatian woman in Russia | Ancient Origins Archaeologists doing exploratory digging ...

The war-hungry women written out of photographic history

The war-hungry women written out of photographic history Lee Miller was famous for her shots of the second world war, but there were many ot...

9 Pioneering Feminists In History Who Were Way Before Their Time

9 Pioneering Feminists In History Who Were Way Before Their Time, Because Strong Women Have Always Existed | Bustle It's spectacularly t...

Stanford historian says falsified medieval history helped create feminism

Stanford historian says falsified medieval history helped create feminism A scholar of the Italian Renaissance, Findlen has collected biogra...

Did Jesus Have a Wife? New Tests on Ancient Coptic Papyrus May Give Answers | Ancient Origins

Did Jesus Have a Wife? New Tests on Ancient Coptic Papyrus May Give Answers | Ancient Origins The controversial “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” has...

The Archaeology News Network: Two Bronze Age female skeletons unearthed at Oylum Mound

The Archaeology News Network: Two Bronze Age female skeletons unearthed at Oylum Mound Two 3,900-year-old female skeletons from the Bronze A...

Studies in the History of Tax Law

We’ve been noting the posting of abstracts for chapters in volume 7 of Studies in the History of Tax Law , edited by Peter Harris and Domi...

What If Apollo Astronauts Could Not Ride the Saturn V Rocket? (1965)

Image credit: NASA George Mueller left private industry to become NASA's new Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight in Septembe...