This Week on the JuntoCast: The Constitution

One of the coolest features of the new blog The Junto ("a group blog on early American history") is "The JuntoCast," "a monthly podcast in which members of The Junto discuss issues of both academic and general interest related to early American history, pedagogy, and public history." LHB readers may be particularly interested in the most recent episode. Bloggers Kenneth Owen, Michael Hattem, Roy Rogers, and Tom Cutterham discuss "the Constitution of the United States, including recent historiography, its overall significance, and originalism."

Tinker Talks!

Arabella Mansfield (credit)

River to River, a program of Iowa Public Radio devoted to the state’s “news, issues and events,” recently devoted a broadcast to Iowa Legal History.  The broadcast included an interview with Mary Beth Tinker, who, as a thirteen-year-old in 1965, “arrived at her Des Moines junior high wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War.”  The host, Ben Kieffer, discusses other “legal milestones,” including Arabella Mansfield (right), “the first female lawyer in the U.S.,” and In re the Matter of Ralph, “the very first case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court concerning a former slave who was captured by bounty hunters.”  Listen here.