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Tag Archives: law
Q&A with Donald W. Rogers, Author of Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO
in american history, author commentary, authors, interviews, labor history, law, new books, Q&A
Tagged American history, authors on issues, interviews, labor history, labor studies, law, Q&A, Supreme Court, UIP authors
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Donald W. Rogers, author of Workers against the City, answers questions about the labor movement, American history, free speech, CIO v. Hague, and civil liberties. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Free speech and assembly law are … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Mythbusting an American institution
in anthropology, immigration, law
Tagged law, marriage
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Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief—widely held in the United States—that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the U.S. prohibition against such unions originated largely because of the … Continue reading
Release Party: Game Faces
in law, sports history
Tagged baseball, Don Newcombe, Game Faces, law, Sarah K. Fields
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Sports figures have a public profile once reserved for the likes of reigning monarchs and movie stars. In the new UIP book Game Faces, Sarah K. Fields looks at six people faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and images, … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday
in american history, law
Tagged Antonin Scalia, law, Supreme Court
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Supreme Court justices have stirred up controversy since the early days of the Republic, those days of yore when members of the court attended to their duties in gigantic powdered wigs and dropped Latin insults into their dissents to show … Continue reading
Baseball on Trial honored
in american history, authors, awards, sports history
Tagged baseball, Baseball on Trial, law
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Baseball on Trial by Nathaniel Grow is co-winner of the 2015 Larry Ritter Book Award from the Society of American Baseball Research. The award recognizes the best new baseball book primarily set in the Deadball Era (1901-1919) published during the … Continue reading
Q&A with Baseball on Trial author Nathaniel Grow
in american history, author commentary, sports history
Tagged antitrust exemption, baseball, Baseball on Trial, law, Major League Baseball, Nathaniel Grow, Supreme Court
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Nathaniel Grow is an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He answered some questions about his new book Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption. Q: Why do you think so many … Continue reading