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As part of H-Law's onging efforts to expand our content offerings on all topics legal historical, H-Law podcaster Siobhan Barco has posted the ninth instalment of H-Law Podcasts.  The topic for Podcast 9 is a discussion with Professor Holly Brewer about her article published in October 2017 in the American Historical Review, entitled "Slavery, Sovereignty and 'Inheritable Blood': Reconsidering John Locke and the Origins of American Slavery."  The article is part of a larger book project that will situate the origins of American slavery in the ideas and legal practices associated

As part of H-Law's onging efforts to expand our content offerings on all topics legal historical, H-Law podcaster Siobhan Barcohas posted the eighth instalment of H-Law Podcasts.  The topic for Podcast 8 is a discussion with Fahad Ahmad Bishara about his book A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The Podcast can be found on H-Law's webpage https://newtorks.h-net.org/h-law.  

As part of H-Law's onging efforts to expand our content offerings on all topics legal historical, H-Law podcaster Siobhan Barco has posted the seventh instalment of H-Law Podcasts.  The topic for Podcast 7 is a discussion with Daniel J. Sharfstein about his book Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017). The Podcast can be found on H-Law's webpage https://newtorks.h-net.org/h-law.  

In the eleventh episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, “Among the Ruins: The Rebirth of Europe’s Avant-Garde,” host Matthew Friedman explores how European composers built a new avant-garde, virtually out of nothing after the Second World War. Growing out of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, this transnational community of composers sought to build a new music for a new, united Europe, although they could never escape the shadow of Europe’s traumatic past

This episode features music by Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gyorgy Ligeti

As part of H-Law's onging efforts to expand our content offerings on all topics legal historical, H-Law podcaster Siobhan Barco has posted the fourth instalment of H-Law Podcasts.  The topic for Podcast  4 is Al Brophy and his new book University, Court and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. The Podcast can be found on H-Law's webpage https://newtorks.h-net.org/h-law.  

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Malcolm Gladwell’s newest project, the podcast Revisionist History, follows the author’s well-known formula of weaving narratives and anecdotes toward an easily digestible takeaway. The podcast’s first season is composed of ten episodes that were released weekly throughout the summer of 2016. Each of the approximately forty-minute episodes is available at http://revisionisthistory.com.  The podcast meanders from topic to topic, touching subjects as far-ranging as the Vietnam War

As part of H-Law's onging efforts to expand our content offerings on all topics legal historical, H-Law podcaster Siobhan Barco has posted the third instalment of H-Law Podcasts.  The topic for Podcast  3 is Sara L. Crosby and her new book Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America. The Podcast can be found on H-Law's webpage https://newtorks.h-net.org/h-law.  

Radiolab Presents More Perfect

There are two things I love about Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, the six-episode Radiolab spinoff produced by WNYC and co-hosted by Jad Abumrad. The first is this song - a quirky, catchy, mnemonic device for remembering the names of the eight current Supreme Court justices (plus nominee Merrick Garland):

The second is the way More Perfect communicates historical themes. The series’ hosts explore the cases that arguably made the Supreme Court the political powerhouse it is today and, in doing so, they unravel stories that address change over time, the complexity