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Law January 5, 2022

North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885

Warren E. Milteer Jr.

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
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). He is an assistant professor of history …
Law October 16, 2020

Bush v. Gore

Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy

Charles L. Zelden

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Charles L. Zelden about the new expanded edition of his book, Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy (University Press of …
Law August 24, 2020

China's War on Smuggling

Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast

Philip Thai

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Philip Thai about his book, China's War on Smuggling: Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast (Columbia University Press, 2018). Thai …
Law June 24, 2020

We Are Not Slaves

State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America

Robert T. Chase

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Robert T. Chase about his book, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2020). In …
Law April 14, 2020

Unwanted

Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965

Maddalena Marinari

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor …
Law March 12, 2020

Voices of the Enslaved

Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

Sophie White

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims …
Law January 17, 2020

Gates to Asia

A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion

Jane H. Hong

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than …
Law November 12, 2019

Integration Now

Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education

William P. Hustwit

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of Talking Legal History, Siobhan talks with William P. Hustwit about his book Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education (UNC Press …
Law September 26, 2019

Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools

Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?

Candy Gunther Brown

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of New Books in Law Siobhan talks with Candy Gunther Brown about her book Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion …
Law September 5, 2019

The Trouble with Minna

A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North

Hendrik Hartog

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of the American Society for Legal History’s podcast Talking Legal History Siobhan talks with Hendrik Hartog about his book The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery …
Law August 19, 2019

Supreme Injustice

Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court

Paul Finkelman

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of the American Society for Legal History’s podcast Talking Legal History Siobhan talks with Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College, about his book Supreme Injustice: Slavery in …
Law April 3, 2018

A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950

Fahad Bishara

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Today I talked to Fahad Bishara about his book A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Dr. Bishara is …
Law October 17, 2017

Locking Up Our Own

Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I talk with James Forman Jr. about his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). Mass incarceration and …
Law September 6, 2017

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law

Tracy A. Thomas

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I talk with Tracy A. Thomas about her book Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law (New York University Press, 2016). Professor Thomas is …
Law January 20, 2017

Poisonous Muse

The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America

Sara L. Crosby

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of the H-Law Legal History Podcast I talk with Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University at Marion, Sara L. Crosby about her new book …
Law October 13, 2016

Bicycling and the Law

Your Rights as a Cyclist

Bob Mionske

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Bob Mionske is a Portland, Oregon based attorney whose practice focuses on representing cyclists. He gained his cycling experience at the highest levels, riding twice as a member of …
Law August 25, 2016

Laws of Image

Privacy and Publicity in America

Samantha Barbas

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In her new book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America (Stanford Law Books, 2016), Samantha Barbas provides a history of Americans' use of law to manage their public …
Law August 17, 2016

Maryland Equine Law

A Legal Guide to Horse Ownership and Activities

Kathleen J.P. Tabor and Jan I. Berlage

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I interview Kathleen J.P. Tabor, Esq. about a book she co-wrote with Jan I. Berlage, Maryland Equine Law: A Legal Guide to Horse Ownership and Activities (Go …
Law May 10, 2016

After Roe

The Lost History of the Abortion Debate

Mary Ziegler

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I talk with Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law about her book, After Roe: The Lost History of …
Law January 5, 2016

Gateway to Freedom

The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I talk with Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University about his book, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W …
Law November 8, 2015

Historic Preservation in a Nutshell

Sara Bronin and Ryan Rowberry

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Historic Preservation in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, 2014), co-authored by Sara Bronin and Ryan Rowberry provides the first-ever in-depth summary of historic preservation law within its local, state, tribal …
Law October 5, 2015

The Big Trial

Law as Public Spectacle

Lawrence M. Friedman

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In the first legal history course I took as an undergraduate, I read Lawrence M. Friedman's A History of American Law and American Law in the 20th Century and have …
Law August 25, 2015

Making Money

Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism

Christine Desan

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Christine Desan, teaches about the international monetary system, the constitutional law of money, constitutional history, political economy, and legal theory at Harvard Law School. In this podcast we discuss her …
Law July 26, 2015

A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

A Nation of Rights

Laura F. Edwards

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I talk with Laura F. Edwards, Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University about her book, A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A …