Margaret Klem and John Meierhofer were Bavarian immigrants who
arrived in New Jersey in the 1850s, got married, and started a
small farm in West Orange. When John returned from the Civil War,
he was ...a changed man, neglecting his work and beating his wife.
Margaret was left to manage the farm and endure the suspicion of
neighbors, who gossiped about her alleged affairs. Then one day in
1879, John turned up dead with a bullet in the back of his head.
Margaret and her farmhand, Dutch immigrant Frank Lammens, were
accused of the crime, and both went to the gallows, making Margaret
the last woman to be executed by the state of New Jersey. Was
Margaret the calculating murderess and adulteress portrayed by the
press? Or was she a battered wife pushed to the edge? Or was she,
as she claimed to the end, innocent? Murder on the
Mountain considers all sides of this fascinating and
mysterious true crime story. In turn, it examines why this murder
trial became front-page news, as it resonated with public
discussions about capital punishment, mental health, anti-immigrant
sentiment, domestic violence, and women's independence. This is a
gripping and thought-provoking study of a murder that shocked the
nation.
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in ...nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite ...the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual practice of teaching. The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors’ experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field’s cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions. Digital Humanities Pedagogy broadens the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, ensuring its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability.
American historians in recent years have paid greater attention to regionalism as a key analytical concept. Some Catholic historians also have embraced this trend, shifting their focus away from the ...urban northeast and toward scattered communities of congregants throughout the American south and far west. These historians also have discovered the persistence of what James O'Toole has characterized, in his new book The Faithful, as "the priestless church" with its thin institutional presence, circuit riding missionaries, and distinctive spiritual practices. New Jersey Catholic historians traditionally have emphasized the urban immigrant roots of their subjects, concentrating for the most part on the large cities and working-class communities that dominated the northern portion of the state. Father Edmund Q.S. Waldron's manuscript "Short History of the Condition of the Catholic Church in the Southern Half of New Jersey in 1848," which he prepared at the request of Newark's bishop Michael Corrigan in 1879, significantly alters that perception and tells a very different tale. Waldron, a native-born convert, was a Philadelphia diocesan priest who practiced an itinerant ministry throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland during the mid-nineteenth century. His reminiscences offer insight into Catholic life and worship in a sparsely settled area of southern New Jersey where institutional manifestations appeared absent, priestly ministrations proved irregular, and isolation produced complex relationships with local Protestants.
archivists & archival records Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L; Wosh, Peter J
Privacy & confidentiality perspectives,
2005
Book
Brings together a diverse selection of thoughtful and provocative essays that explore the legal, ethical, administrative, and institutional considerations that shape archival debates concerning the ...administration of access to records containing personal information.
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