... attempts to expand the white medical district, including the successful creation of Tulane University’s new hospital, and the stymied work to expand Flint Goodridge Hospital, which entered into decline. It explores the creation of the state agency Health Education Authority of Louisiana (H.E.A.L.) and its...

...The lesson of a typical public execution in the South in the late-nineteenth century diverged from the conventional ideal of punishment. The norm for public executions, infused as it was with religious meaning, displayed a rich, rare moment of African American public authority. hymns sung...

..., and truths so well established that they stand as simple “facts” of working-class life, including hunger, unemployment, and deeply despotic authority. Tracing the sources of an inchoate discontent, this chapter explains how this nonactivist worker first glimpsed perceived injustice but was untouched...

.... As the women approached the Confederate soldiers, the soldiers cursed them for daring to challenge their authority. When one of the women retorted that they intended to do “no such thing,” the soldiers surrounded her. Crying out “god dam her,” one man urged the others to “take her along too.” Carthage Moore...

... of “forgetting” when they edited out sordid elements and aspects of the black experience. However, it is shown that the public reconstruction of humiliation by privileged blacks actually served the same agenda: the preservation of social status and authority. Negro Digest Stanford University Yale University...

..., and water supply. Finally, it demonstrates how early environmental improvements benefited whites but not other groups. Austin Dam Johnson Lyndon Texas Colorado River Water Conservation Liberalism Lower Colorado River Authority LCRA New Deal Technology Lamar Mirabeau Olmsted Frederick Law...

... distinct schools of hadith studies in India and in Yemen, and teases out the implications of these very radical theories for notions of authority. The chapter proposes new ways of reading and analysing hadith, not just in terms of its social and cultural significance but also in relation to earlier...

...Physicians' assertions regarding their role in civil defense both reflected and reinforced the cultural authority that medical practitioners held. In the 1950s and 1960s, physicians used this authority to reinforce their command over matters of sexuality. Because of the rising trends of teen...

...This book begins with a discussion of the sectional controversy over slavery in the territories of the trans-Mississippi West. Although it was strongly linked with different interpretations of state versus federal authority under the Constitution, the controversy did not directly cause...

... Women Communitarianism Du Bois W E B Jesus Christ Jewish students Monogamy Stake Mormon regional unit “Whiteness ” Apostles Mormon Cluff Benjamin Jr Ecclesiastical authority Mormon levels of First Presidency Gender General Conference semiannual Lay bishop Priesthood Primary Association...

... demonstrating their negative perspective on religious despotism, tyranny, and exploitation. The spirits and members of the Cercle Harmonique regarded the revealed knowledge of Spiritualism as a more legitimate form of religious power than Catholicism’s formal authority. Ambroise a French priest Lamennais...

...After World War II, as the subspecialties of injury prevention and sports medicine developed, doctors and coaches sought to establish their authority on matters of youth football safety. The framing of football safety knowledge was gendered. Not only were sports doctors and coaches almost...

...This essay takes a broad look at the concept and the exercise of authority in the Catholic tradition and then focuses on the process of decision making during the Council, leading to the Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) and to the Decree on bishops (Christus...

...This prologue explains how political theorists during the Enlightenment linked individual liberty to white male maturity in debates about the nature of just authority. It examines the argument put forward by Puritan, Whig, and Enlightenment reformers in England and America that legitimate authority...

... of traditional Southern authority, Draper's troops—most of them former slaves—would find themselves at Point Lookout Prison Camp in Maryland, guarding Confederate prisoners of war, many of whom were or had been slaveholders. Later these soldiers would participate in raids intended to stamp out guerrilla activity...

... authority within the family, as the sphere of personal life was slowly eroded by the welfare state, the mass media, peer groups, and cults of expertise. In his 1978 book, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Lasch argued that the decline...

... personalities who established a reputation as moral backsliders in Chuschi. Each of the men described was a local power holder and became a key figure in the civil war violence of the 1980s. After discussing Chuschi's system of customary authority and justice, the chapter then discusses internal conflicts...

...This chapter describes how historians have become interested in the relationship between centers and peripheries in the construction of early modern American empires. As described most notably by sociologist Edward Shils, “As we move from the center . . . in which authority is possessed...

... to regard individual rights as paramount, Catholics promoted obedience to authority—rather than skepticism of it—as a Christian and American virtue. New York Jews also viewed religion as a malleable cultural and political tradition, in contrast to Irish and Italian Catholics who often saw the world through...

...This book takes up one crucial aspect of the “woman question” debate: the extent to which African American women would exercise autonomy and authority within their community's public culture. Black activist thought on the question changed over the course of the century. In some cases convergences...