The Legal History Podcast

Nov 19 2024 37 ep. 45 mins 20
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Legal History Podcast is hosted by Siobhan M. M. Barco

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EPISODE 37: Hendrik "Dirk" Hartog

Nov 19 2024 31 mins  
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Hendrik Hartog about his book "Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic” (The University of Chicago Press, 2024). Hendrik "Dirk" Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. For a decade, he was the director of

EPISODE 36: Dylan C. Penningroth

Oct 07 2024 43 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Dylan C. Penningroth about his prize-winning book “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights” (Liveright, 2023). Dylan C. Penningroth is Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of American History & Citizenship and Associate Dean for the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Legal Studies at UC Berkeley. H

EPISODE 35: Alpert, Eisenberg, Mordechai

Oct 02 2024 36 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, and Lee Mordechai about their book "Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies." (Edinburgh UP, 2023). Robert Alpert is an Adjunct Instructor at Fordham University where he has taught courses on computers and robots in film, movies and the American experience, and media law. Merle Eisenberg i

EPISODE 34: Michael Willrich

Jul 12 2024 26 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Michael Willrich about his book American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Anarchists and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 2023). It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Willrich is Leff Families Professor of History at Brandeis University where he teaches and researches in the areas of A

EPISODE 33: Natasha Wheatley

Jun 06 2024 45 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Natasha Wheatley about her book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton, 2023). It is listed among the best books of the year by the New Statesman and Just Security. Wheatley is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University where she teaches and researches in the areas of modern

EPISODE 32: Kate Masur

Jun 13 2023 51 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Kate Masur, Professor of History and Board of Visitors Professor at Northwestern University about her book, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton, 2021). Until Justice Be Done was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History and winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize fro

EPISODE 31: Felicity Turner

Jan 03 2023 27 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Felicity Turner, Associate Professor of History and Honors Program Coordinator at Georgia Southern University about her book Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century United States (UNC Press, 2022). Her teaching and research interests include legal history; history of medicine; women, gender, and sexuality; l

EPISODE 30: Peter Grajzl & Peter Murrell

Nov 26 2022 45 mins  
In this episode Siobhan talks with Professors Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell about their June 2022 Law and History Review article “Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance.” Peter Grajzl is Professor of Economics at Washington & Lee University, where he teaches courses in introductory economics, microeconomic theor

EPISODE 29: Jonathan Gienapp

Jun 13 2022 35 mins  
Jonathan Gienapp is an assistant professor in Stanford’s Department of History. He is a scholar of Revolutionary and early republican America specializing in the period’s constitutionalism, political culture, legal history, and intellectual history. He is also interested in the method and practice of the history of ideas. His first book, The Second Creation: Fixing the American

EPISODE 28: Warren Milteer, Jr.

Dec 28 2021 38 mins  
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. about his book North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020). Milteer is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His other publications include Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021), the independently published H