E Wayne Carp

Biographic Data

ID964283
NAMEE Wayne Carp
GIVEN NAMESE Wayne
FAMILY NAMECarp
SIGNATURECARP E W
AFFILIATIONSPacific Lutheran University
ORCID0000-0003-0399-6141
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • The Sentimentalization of Adoption: A Critical Note on Viviana Zelizer's Pricing the Priceless Child

    E Wayne CarpARTICLEAdoption & Culture2017

    7 The Sentimentalization of Adoption: A Critical Note on Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the Priceless Child by E. Wayne Carp To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children,1 Brigette Soland, an associate professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, and Emily Bruce, a graduate student in the department of History at the University of Minnesota, orga…

  • The Traffic in Babies: Cross-border Adoption and Baby Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930–1972

    E Wayne CarpARTICLESocial History2012Cited by: 1

  • Does Opening Adoption Records Have an Adverse Social Impact? Some Lessons from the U.S., Great Britain, and Australia, 1953–2007

    E Wayne CarpARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2007Cited by: 1References: 2

    This study provides an international history of the adoption reform movement in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia from 1953 to 2007. It empirically tests how safe birth parents and adopted adults are in countries that have opened their adoption records, usually birth registration records, using contact preference forms and contact vetoes. The results of this investigation reveal that a vast gap exists between the fear by birth paren…

  • Dear Dr. Spock: Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor ‐ by Michael S. Foley

    Open AccessE Wayne CarpARTICLEPeace & Change2007

  • Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption

    Gary A Debele, E Wayne CarpARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2005

    Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption Get access Carp E. Wayne, Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 304pp. $27.95. Gary A. Debele Gary A. Debele Attorney-at-Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 110–111,…

  • Adoption, Blood Kinship, Stigma, and the Adoption Reform Movement: A Historical Perspective

    Open AccessE Wayne CarpARTICLELaw & Society Review2002Cited by: 7References: 14

    Katarina Wegar, Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate over Sealed Birth Records. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xv + 169 pages. $30.00 cloth. I. Introduction Adoption touches upon almost every aspect of American society and culture and commands our attention by the enormous number of people who have a direct, intimate connection to it. Some experts put the number as high as six out of ten Americans (Thomas Foundation for…

  • Sealed Adoption Records in Historical Perspective

    E Wayne CarpARTICLEAdoption Quarterly2001

  • Adoption and the Family in Early-Twentieth-Century America

    E Wayne CarpARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2001

    Adoption and the Family in Early-Twentieth-Century America E. Wayne Carp E. Wayne Carp E. Wayne Carp is a professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University. He is the author of Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (1998); and the editor of Historical Perspectives on American Adoption (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 15, Issue 4, S…

  • Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption

    Sonya Michel, E Wayne CarpARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption. By E. Wayne Carp. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xvi, 304 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-79668-3.) Get access Sonya Michel Sonya Michel University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 739–740, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568898 …

  • The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Vol. V: 1 November 1779-31 May 1780

    Ira D Gruber, Nathanael Greene et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

  • Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783

    E Wayne Carp, Mark V KwasnyARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1998

  • Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse in American History

    E Wayne Carp, Leroy AshbyARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse in American History. By LeRoy Ashby. (New York: Twayne, 1997. xiv, 258 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-4100-3.) Get access E. Wayne Carp E. Wayne Carp Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Page 1475, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568107 Published: 01 M…

  • Professional Social Workers, Adoption, and the Problem of Illegitimacy, 1915–1945

    Open AccessE Wayne CarpARTICLEJournal of Policy History1994Cited by: 2References: 34

    Several years ago, Regina G. Kunzel presented a provocative examination of the Florence Crittenton maternity homes between 1915 and 1945. Her goal was to trace “the history of the transformation from evangelical to professional work with unmarried mothers.” Kunzel's thesis is that in the early twentieth century the control and treatment of unmarried mothers shifted dramatically: from evangelical women “who understood their work in terms of the ‘f…

  • George Washington and American Constitutionalism

    E Wayne Carp, Glenn A PhelpsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

    This text offers an understanding of George Washington and the history and government he helped to make. Phelps makes the case for the President's decisive importance to the development of American constitutional republicanism with emphasis on the strength and coherence of Washington's political philosophy

  • The Sealed Adoption Records Controversy in Historical Perspective: The Case of the Children's Home Society of Washington, 1895-1988

    E Wayne CarpARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…1992

    I would like to thank Charlie Langdon and D. Sharon Osborne, past and present Executive Directors of the Children's Home Society of Washington (CHSW), for permission to use the CHSW's case records, and Randy Perin, Supervisor of the CHSW's Adoption Resource Center, whose enthusiasm for this project has been inspirational. I am also grateful to Roger W. Toogood, Executive Director of the Children's Home Society of Minnesota (CHSM), and Marietta E.…

  • The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Volume IV: 11 May 1779-31 October 1779

    Harry M Ward, Nathanael Greene et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1992

  • The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas

    E Wayne Carp, James A LewisARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas. By James A. Lewis. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 149 pp. $24.95.) Get access The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas. By Lewis James A.. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 149 pp. $24.95.) E. Wayne Carp E. Wayne Carp Pacific Lutheran University Search …

  • The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Vol. V: 1 November 1779-31 May 1780

    Don Higginbotham, Richard K Showman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Vol. V: 1 November 1779–31 May 1780. Ed. by Richard K. Showman, Robert E. McCarthy, Dennis M. Conrad and The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. Vol. VI: 1 June 1780–25 December 1780. Ed. by Richard K. Showman, Dennis M. Conrad, Roger N. Parks Get access Don Higginbotham Don Higginbotham University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…

  • Family History, Family Violence: A Review Essay

    Open AccessE Wayne CarpARTICLEJournal of Policy History1991

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  • War and Society in Revolutionary America: The Wider Dimensions of Conflict. American Military History

    E Wayne Carp, Don HigginbothamARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • Old Problems, Poor Solutions

    E Wayne Carp, Robert E Cray et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1989

  • The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783

    E Wayne Carp, John E SelbyARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1989

  • Arms, Country, and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the "Lower Sort" during the American Revolution

    E Wayne Carp, Steven RosswurmARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1988Cited by: 1

  • President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790-1795

    E Wayne Carp, Wiley Sword et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1986

  • Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic

    E Wayne Carp, Paul D NelsonARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic. By Paul David Nelson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. xi + 368 pp. $27.50.) Get access E. Wayne Carp E. Wayne Carp University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 458–459, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908252 Published: 01 September 1986