Weekend Roundup

• Jonathan Levy's Freaks of Fortune pretty much killed it at the OAH awards ceremony this year. Check out the other winners here.

•  From the Historical Society: a thoughtful post on "John Adams and the Rule of Law in Boston."

• Repayable taxes: An ancient fiscal technique worth revisiting? Read on at HNN.

• From the OUP blog: Susan Ware on "the challenges and rewards of biographical essays." (Hat tip: Historical Society) 

• From the New York Times: a story on preserving historical artifacts in the digital era. 

• And in the ABA Journal, Fading Past: Are Digitization and Budget Cuts Compromising History? by Hollee Schwartz Temple.

The Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.