Although the diary shares common qualities with other life writing texts, I consider it as a particular kind of memory-text and witness. I therefore propose to study the way in which it mediates ...memory for readers and how it is later mediated to reach a wider audience. In analyzing Hélène Berr's Journal, I explore materiality and immediacy and show how the reader can experience the mediated memory of the diarist through these elements. I further explore how mediators shape, digitize, and distribute the diary in a way that emphasizes the materiality of the original and attempts to preserve authenticity..
After more than a century of failure, Congress now stands closer than ever to making lynching a federal crime. As the pending legislation acknowledges, at least 4,742 people were lynched in the ...United States between 1882 and 1968, but Congress continually declined to pass any of the nearly 200 bills introduced during those decades.
Although Black Americans had faced lethal racial terror before, during, and immediately following emancipation, the rate of lynching rose significantly in the 1890s as Redemption and Jim Crow segregation took hold. States had the authority to prosecute violent crimes, but many had made clear that they had no will to prevent or punish lynch mobs. Activists worked to expose the savagery of lynching as an apparatus of racial violence and to revive the public and legislative concern for Black lives that seemingly died during the retreat from Reconstruction. Proponents of anti-lynching legislation faced the challenge of convincing Congress that it had the authority under the Fourteenth Amendment's Enforcement Clause to prosecute individuals, not only state actors, in particularly egregious circumstances.
This Note centers on one particularly promising proposal: the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Introduced in 1917, the ambitious Dyer Bill was the first to clear the House, and it soon incited controversy in the Senate and heated debate in the public press. Many Americans- Black and white, Northern and Southern, Democrat and Republican-had something to say about the Dyer Bill.
Scholars, however, have since said relatively little. Few treatments of the anti-lynching movement capture the enduring constitutional significance of this legislative campaign. Likewise, legal commentary on the Enforcement Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment too often omits this period, skipping from the Reconstruction era to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Kornhauser dicusses the tax lobbying in the US is nearly irresistible because both taxation and lobbying hold special places in American democracy and the American psyche. Further strengthening the ...anti-tax and patriotism bond is the belief that taxes destroy federalism. Lowering taxes, in this view, starves the twin-headed beast of centralization and bureaucracy and prevents the federal government from stepping into unconstitutional state functions. Thorndike describe the conflicting loyalties of the organized tax bar as lobbyist. On the one hand, the tax bar may offer Congress its expertise in a public-spirited effort to improve the tax laws and defend the fisc. On the other hand, the tax bar may wrap itself in the cloak of public interest in order to promote the private interests of the clients of its members.
This article presents a feminist thematic reading of three diaries written by young women and girls during World War II. The diaries were written by Anna Frank, Hélène Berr, and Ruth Maier, and have ...not yet been comparatively studied. The thematic reading presented here has focused on four super-themes characterizing the diary-keeping of women during the Holocaust - love, writing, war, and the status of women.
