Ex Post Facto in the Civil Context: Unbridled Punishment

This Article outlines the historical background of the Ex Post Facto Clause, focusing on the intent of the framers and the Supreme Court\u27s narrowing of the Clause to apply only to criminal statutes and any civil statutes that are unmistakably punitive in nature. The focus then shifts to the problem of mixed motives in legislative acts

Receipt for Corn, April 9, 1868

This handwritten receipt, dated April 9, 1868, is for 7 sacks of corn purchased by Flemming and Baldwin from Jesse H. Darden for a cost of eighteen dollars and fifteen cents. The right and bottom edge are slightly jagged from having been torn.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-darden-papers/1308/thumbnail.jp

For Safety and For Liberty, The Devan Family of Gettysburg

This article explores Gettysburg’s 19th century black history through the exciting experiences of the Devan family. Originally from Frederick County, Maryland, they came to Gettysburg as free people of color. In town, one member of the family was suspected of assisting slave catchers by handing over escaped slaves for a profit. Four members of the family served during the Civil War in the United States Colored Troops, three of whom died in the service. This complex story proves the fact that black history is extremely complex and should not be painted by historians with a single brush stroke

On the Trail of Sidney O\u27Brien: An Inquiry into Her Family and Status - Was She a Slave or Servant of the Gettys Family in Gettysburg? Was Her Daughter, Getty Ann, a Descendant of James Gettys?

Like many Decembers in the greater Adams county area, the beginning of the winter usually is a collage of intermittent warm spells spliced amongst Arctic days with cold Canadian northwest winds. Amid the hoopla, as Gettysburgians prepared for the 1873 Christmas holidays during the week between the 17th and 24th of December, a person had, as Alfred Lord Tennyson so eloquently described, Crossed the Bar. But in the local newspapers there had been no notice of declining health. No death notice appeared. Possibly the cost of five cents a line for all over four lines- cash to accompany the notice was too much for the family. Or did not the publishers of Gettysburg\u27s two newspapers consider the passing of another Black-American as newsworthy for their readership? The only printed evidence of the passing of a grand dame of Gettysburg, a human link dating back to the very founding of the town, was a short legal notice regarding the filing of Letters Testamentary printed directly below the death notices in the 24 December Star and Sentinel. Sidney O\u27Brien had died. [excerpt

James R. Killian, Jr., Sputnik, and Eisenhower: White House Science Advice and the Reformation of American Science Education, 1955-1958

This paper chronicles the often-overlooked relationship between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., the first-ever appointed Presidential Science Advisor. Emphasis is placed on the role of Dr. Killian and the President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) in advocating curricular reform in the fields of science and mathematics, a reformation which became doubly important following the successful launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik I in 1957. This essay examines the efforts of Eisenhower and Killian to keep pace with the Russian scientific advances by improving American education in the scientific and technical fields. It concludes with a discussion of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and Killian’s efforts to see the piece of legislation enacted

Larson Ford Sales Inc. v. J. Taylor Silver : Brief of Respondent

Appeal from an order of the Third District Court for Salt Lake County, State of Utah, the Honorable Bryant H. Croft, Judge, presiding

Dansk børnelitteratur

Publ. dansk version af Childrens' Literature, Sv. H. Rossel, ed.: A History of Danish Literature, 1993. Odense Universitet, 1996

Liquid racism and the Danish Prophet Muhammad cartoons

This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 The Author.This article examines reactions to the October 2005 publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. It does so by using the concept of ‘liquid racism’. While the controversy arose because it is considered blasphemous by many Muslims to create images of the Prophet Muhammad, the article argues that the meaning of the cartoons is multidimensional, that their analysis is significantly more complex than most commentators acknowledge, and that this complexity can best be addressed via the concept of liquid racism. The article examines the liquidity of the cartoons in relation to four readings. These see the cartoons as: (1) a criticism of Islamic fundamentalism; (2) blasphemous images; (3) Islamophobic and racist; and (4) satire and a defence of freedom of speech. Finally, the relationship between postmodernity and the rise of fundamentalism is discussed because the cartoons, reactions to them, and Islamic fundamentalism, all contain an important postmodern dimension.ESR