John Wertheimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wertheimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Wertheimer |
| SIGNATURE | WERTHEIMER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Smoke Signals from Samarcand
This slim book elegantly recounts the 1931 trial of sixteen white, teenaged, female inmates accused of setting fire to the Samarcand Manor Training School for Delinquent Girls in rural North Carolina. Reformers founded Samarcand in 1917. “The school is doing wonderful work,” the Charlotte Observer gushed in 1922, but by the early 1930s, Samarcand had become so unbearable that inmates set it ablaze, hoping to escape. The young “match-strikers” wer…
The law recognizes racial instinct”
On January 24, 1913, the trustees of the Dalcho School, a segregated, all-white public school in Dillon County, South Carolina, summarily dismissed Dudley, Eugene, and Herbert Kirby, ages ten, twelve, and fourteen, respectively. According to testimony offered in a subsequent hearing, the boys had “always properly behaved,” were “good pupils,” and “never ...exercise[d] any bad influence in school.” Moreover, the boys’ overwhelmingly white ancestry…
Freedom of the Screen
Journal Article Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981 Get access Wittern-Keller Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 356 pp. $55.00 (cloth). John Wertheimer John Wertheimer Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 50, Issue 4, …
Gloria's Story
Gloria Peralta and Julio Díaz (not their real names) started living together, sort of, early in 1963, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She was single. He was married to another woman. He was thirty-six. She was fourteen. In Gloria's words, she and Julio “lived together maritally” for several years and produced two children. But Julio neither divorced nor left his wife. Instead, he split time between the household containing his wife and three childr…
Popular Culture, Violence, and Religion in Gloria's Story
One of the most vexing challenges accompanying any attempt to reconstruct the legal history of the family is deciding how much interpretive weight to assign to social factors as opposed to legal factors. “Gloria's Story” is loaded with social history, in part because it focuses on a small group of decidedly non-elite characters. It discusses non-legal matters as big as the impact of wealth concentration on the Guatemalan family and as small as th…
The Collaborative Research Seminar
The Kingfish and the Constitution
Journal Article The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America Get access Cortner Richard C., The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. xiv, 196 pp. $55.00. John Wertheimer John Wertheimer Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Freedom of Speech
Mutual Film Reviewed
Journal Article Mutual Film Reviewed: The Movies, Censorship, and Free Speech in Progressive America Get access John Wertheimer John Wertheimer author, lecturer *Department of History of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, would like to thank the members of the Legal History Colloquium of the New York University School of Law for their comments on an earlier draft of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Gloria's Story
Gloria Peralta and Julio Díaz (not their real names) started living together, sort of, early in 1963, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She was single. He was married to another woman. He was thirty-six. She was fourteen. In Gloria's words, she and Julio “lived together maritally” for several years and produced two children. But Julio neither divorced nor left his wife. Instead, he split time between the household containing his wife and three childr…
The law recognizes racial instinct”
On January 24, 1913, the trustees of the Dalcho School, a segregated, all-white public school in Dillon County, South Carolina, summarily dismissed Dudley, Eugene, and Herbert Kirby, ages ten, twelve, and fourteen, respectively. According to testimony offered in a subsequent hearing, the boys had “always properly behaved,” were “good pupils,” and “never ...exercise[d] any bad influence in school.” Moreover, the boys’ overwhelmingly white ancestry…
Popular Culture, Violence, and Religion in Gloria's Story
One of the most vexing challenges accompanying any attempt to reconstruct the legal history of the family is deciding how much interpretive weight to assign to social factors as opposed to legal factors. “Gloria's Story” is loaded with social history, in part because it focuses on a small group of decidedly non-elite characters. It discusses non-legal matters as big as the impact of wealth concentration on the Guatemalan family and as small as th…
The Collaborative Research Seminar
Mutual Film Reviewed
Journal Article Mutual Film Reviewed: The Movies, Censorship, and Free Speech in Progressive America Get access John Wertheimer John Wertheimer author, lecturer *Department of History of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, would like to thank the members of the Legal History Colloquium of the New York University School of Law for their comments on an earlier draft of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Mutual Film Reviewed
Journal Article Mutual Film Reviewed: The Movies, Censorship, and Free Speech in Progressive America Get access John Wertheimer John Wertheimer author, lecturer *Department of History of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, would like to thank the members of the Legal History Colloquium of the New York University School of Law for their comments on an earlier draft of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Freedom of Speech
The Kingfish and the Constitution
Journal Article The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America Get access Cortner Richard C., The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. xiv, 196 pp. $55.00. John Wertheimer John Wertheimer Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Collaborative Research Seminar
Gloria's Story
Gloria Peralta and Julio Díaz (not their real names) started living together, sort of, early in 1963, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She was single. He was married to another woman. He was thirty-six. She was fourteen. In Gloria's words, she and Julio “lived together maritally” for several years and produced two children. But Julio neither divorced nor left his wife. Instead, he split time between the household containing his wife and three childr…
Popular Culture, Violence, and Religion in Gloria's Story
One of the most vexing challenges accompanying any attempt to reconstruct the legal history of the family is deciding how much interpretive weight to assign to social factors as opposed to legal factors. “Gloria's Story” is loaded with social history, in part because it focuses on a small group of decidedly non-elite characters. It discusses non-legal matters as big as the impact of wealth concentration on the Guatemalan family and as small as th…
Freedom of the Screen
Journal Article Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981 Get access Wittern-Keller Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 356 pp. $55.00 (cloth). John Wertheimer John Wertheimer Davidson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 50, Issue 4, …
The law recognizes racial instinct”
On January 24, 1913, the trustees of the Dalcho School, a segregated, all-white public school in Dillon County, South Carolina, summarily dismissed Dudley, Eugene, and Herbert Kirby, ages ten, twelve, and fourteen, respectively. According to testimony offered in a subsequent hearing, the boys had “always properly behaved,” were “good pupils,” and “never ...exercise[d] any bad influence in school.” Moreover, the boys’ overwhelmingly white ancestry…
Smoke Signals from Samarcand
This slim book elegantly recounts the 1931 trial of sixteen white, teenaged, female inmates accused of setting fire to the Samarcand Manor Training School for Delinquent Girls in rural North Carolina. Reformers founded Samarcand in 1917. “The school is doing wonderful work,” the Charlotte Observer gushed in 1922, but by the early 1930s, Samarcand had become so unbearable that inmates set it ablaze, hoping to escape. The young “match-strikers” wer…
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