Juries and Race in the Nineteenth Century

Abortion , Race , and Gender in Nineteenth - Century America

launched a successful campaign to criminalize abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Virtually every state had passed laws criminalizing abortion by 1890, and most gave physicians authority to decide when abortion was medically necessary (Mohr 1978; Luker 1984).1 Many of these laws remained unchanged until vacated by the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Most historians of abortion asser...

Race and the decision making of juries

The relationship between race and jury decision making is a controversial topic that has received increased attention in recent years. While public and media discourse has focused on anecdotal evidence in the form of high-profile cases, legal researchers have considered a wide range of empirical questions including: To what extent does the race of a defendant affect the verdict tendencies of ju...

Race, place, and medicine: the idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine

Others narrow the focus considerably. In 'From robust appetites to calorie counting: the emergence of dieting among Smith College students in the 1920s', Margaret Lowe probes the change in attitudes of Smith College students toward food and their bodies. Prior to the First World War, weight gain was perceived as a sign of health, but by the 1920s, dieting and weight loss became central concerns...

The Nineteenth Psalm in the Criticism of the Nineteenth Century

2 The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament showeth his handiwork. 3 Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. 4 There is no speech nor language, Their voice is unheard. 5 Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 6 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamb...

The nineteenth-century quarantine narrative.