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A Human Being, and Not a Mere Social Factor
This article reviews the developing strategies of Catholic opposition to state laws for compulsory sterilization of so-called ‘feeble-minded’ residents of state institutions during the 1920s. In 1927...
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Hopelessly Entangled in Nordic Pre-Suppositions
This article examines the involvement of U.S. Catholics in the American Eugenics Society during the 1920′s. While Catholics were often opponents of eugenics, John A. Ryan and John Montgomery Cooper,...
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Tensions Not Unlike that Produced by a Mixed Marriage
In 1948, the California Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-miscegenation statute unconstitutional. Twenty years before the U.S. Supreme Court came to the same conclusion in Loving v. Virginia,...
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Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in May 2013, a pdf of the manuscript is available for review upon request.
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Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian
The digital revolution has transformed research, exhibition, writing, review, participatory public engagement, and every other aspect of history practice. To consider the influence of these changes on...
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Build, Iterate, and Generalize
RRCHNM’s foray into community transcription with the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and the development of Scripto offers some significant lessons for cultural heritage institutions and...
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Public historians come from a variety of backgrounds, but they share a commitment to making the study of the past accessible to members of the general public. Unlike academic historians, who might...
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