Richard F Hamm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard F Hamm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard F |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamm |
| SIGNATURE | HAMM R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4179-4313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
Journal Article The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 Get access The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913. By Ashley T Rubin. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. lvi, 356 pp. Cloth, $61.99. Paper, $29.99.) Richard F Hamm Richard F Hamm University at Albany, State University …
The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
"The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade." History: Reviews of New Books, 50(2), pp. 23–24
Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution by Brett Gary
Although the title does not reveal it, Gary’s book employs a biographical approach to the study of how people who embraced modernism challenged the legal gender norms established in the Victorian Age and given potent legal effect through the Comstock Act and similar state legislation. Comstockery was paternalistic in every sense of the word, utilizing the concept of obscenity to protect the moral order of society by regulating sexuality. The lega…
Race and Relevance: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Integration of the American Bar Association, 1938-1943
This article explores the role of Arthur Garfield Hays and mostly Jewish lawyers in dismantling the American Bar Association’s prohibition of African Americans becoming members. By publicly resigning from the organization and encouraging others to do so over the ABA’s treatment of African-American applicant Francis Rivers, these lawyers made the color bar a public issue in the press. While earlier efforts in the late 1930s had failed, World War I…
Off the Streets: The Origins of the Doctrine of Commercial Speech
Leading legal scholars have contended that in the 1942 case of Valentine v. Chrestensen, “the Supreme Court plucked the commercial speech doctrine out of thin air.” But the idea that commercial speech was not protected by the First Amendment had been well established in the 1930s and, thus, it would be more accurate to say that the justices picked it up off the streets. The article will explore the origins of the doctrine of commercial speech by …
Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell
The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis
Journal Article The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis Get access The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. By Dale Elizabeth. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. viii, 158 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn0-8142-0867-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn0-8142-5068-8.) Richard F. Hamm Richard F. Hamm State University of New YorkAlbany, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Journal Article Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920 Get access Hamm Richard F., Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x, 341 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). John E. Semonche John E. Semonche University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on:…
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Policy, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920. By Richard F. Hamm. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x, 341 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-80782181-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4493-4.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Administration and prison suasion: Law enforcement in the American temperance movement, 1880–1920
Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870-1910
Journal Article Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870–1910 Get access Bergstrom Randolph E., Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870–1910. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xi, 213 pp. $29.95. Richard F. Hamm Richard F. Hamm University at Albany, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Ju…
Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
Journal Article The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 Get access The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913. By Ashley T Rubin. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. lvi, 356 pp. Cloth, $61.99. Paper, $29.99.) Richard F Hamm Richard F Hamm University at Albany, State University …
Off the Streets: The Origins of the Doctrine of Commercial Speech
Leading legal scholars have contended that in the 1942 case of Valentine v. Chrestensen, “the Supreme Court plucked the commercial speech doctrine out of thin air.” But the idea that commercial speech was not protected by the First Amendment had been well established in the 1930s and, thus, it would be more accurate to say that the justices picked it up off the streets. The article will explore the origins of the doctrine of commercial speech by …
Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900
Administration and prison suasion: Law enforcement in the American temperance movement, 1880–1920
Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870-1910
Journal Article Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870–1910 Get access Bergstrom Randolph E., Courting Danger: Injury and Law in New York City, 1870–1910. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992. xi, 213 pp. $29.95. Richard F. Hamm Richard F. Hamm University at Albany, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Ju…
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Policy, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920. By Richard F. Hamm. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x, 341 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-80782181-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4493-4.) Get access Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
Journal Article Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920 Get access Hamm Richard F., Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. x, 341 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). John E. Semonche John E. Semonche University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on:…
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920
The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis
Journal Article The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis Get access The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. By Dale Elizabeth. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. viii, 158 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn0-8142-0867-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn0-8142-5068-8.) Richard F. Hamm Richard F. Hamm State University of New YorkAlbany, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell
Off the Streets: The Origins of the Doctrine of Commercial Speech
Leading legal scholars have contended that in the 1942 case of Valentine v. Chrestensen, “the Supreme Court plucked the commercial speech doctrine out of thin air.” But the idea that commercial speech was not protected by the First Amendment had been well established in the 1930s and, thus, it would be more accurate to say that the justices picked it up off the streets. The article will explore the origins of the doctrine of commercial speech by …
Race and Relevance: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Integration of the American Bar Association, 1938-1943
This article explores the role of Arthur Garfield Hays and mostly Jewish lawyers in dismantling the American Bar Association’s prohibition of African Americans becoming members. By publicly resigning from the organization and encouraging others to do so over the ABA’s treatment of African-American applicant Francis Rivers, these lawyers made the color bar a public issue in the press. While earlier efforts in the late 1930s had failed, World War I…
The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
"The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade." History: Reviews of New Books, 50(2), pp. 23–24
Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution by Brett Gary
Although the title does not reveal it, Gary’s book employs a biographical approach to the study of how people who embraced modernism challenged the legal gender norms established in the Victorian Age and given potent legal effect through the Comstock Act and similar state legislation. Comstockery was paternalistic in every sense of the word, utilizing the concept of obscenity to protect the moral order of society by regulating sexuality. The lega…
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
Journal Article The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 Get access The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913. By Ashley T Rubin. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. lvi, 356 pp. Cloth, $61.99. Paper, $29.99.) Richard F Hamm Richard F Hamm University at Albany, State University …
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