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Nov. 5, 2026

Clio's Review: National Parks and the Supreme Court

Clio's Review: National Parks and the Supreme Court

Carla Chung Mattix, National Parks and the Supreme Court: Groundbreaking Legal Battles (University of Nevada Press, 2026)

 

Book review coming soon.

Clio’s Review of California Dreams

Miriam Pawel, California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026. In 1868, California set out to build something extraordinary in the rolling hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay: a univers…

Clio's Review of Proving Pregnancy

Felicity M. Turner, Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. In the early American republic, infanticide could be prosecuted without evidence of a body. That w…

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