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ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM AT THE \BORDERS OF BELONGING\: DRAWING ON HISTORY TO EXPAND THE ARCHIVE AND CHANGE THE LENS
Research on administrative constitutionalism has generally come out of law of schools, from scholars specializing in public law. A limitation of thw existing scholarship is its relatively thin empirical foundation. Administrative constitutionalism is hard to see because much of what administrators do is hard to see, and because the significance of some administrative interpretations only becomes apparent over time. This Article expands the archive, by alerting legal scholars to fine-grained historical research on Americans' encounters with administrative agencies. This body of work—coming largely out of history departments—is particularly attentive to the experiences of marginalized and non-elite populations. And although the historians writing in this vein have not always emphasized the constitutional aspects of their stories, those aspects are there between the lines. By analyzing two examples—the Freedmen's Bureau's interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment and immigration officials' interpretation of the Fifth Amendment due process guarantee—this Article demonstrates what historians have to offer the study of Article administrative constitutionalism, both empirically and normatively. American history, this research reminds us, is about competing constitutional visions. Administrators helped pick winners and losers in an ongoing battle for formal legitimacy.
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Freeman : a novel
\"At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife\"--Provided by the publisher.
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The WPA Redeemer Narratives: White Mississippians and Reconstruction Memory in the New Deal Era
Sometime in the years immediately following the Civil War, Duncan's future wife had attended a community dance at the county courthouse. [...]their emphasis on Reconstruction underscores the post-Civil War era's significance as an origin story for a \"New Mississippi\" characterized by one-party rule and Black disenfranchisement. Created by white southerners for white southerners, the WPA redeemer narratives reveal what Reconstruction lessons persisted through six decades of mediation and why particular memories resonated in an era of economic and political turmoil.® These interviews also highlight the authority of living memory, a power that WPA researchers worked to extend well beyond the life spans of Reconstruction's surviving eyewitnesses. Yet even under these expanded parameters, the living memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction would have barely extended into the latter half of the twentieth century.
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A Moment in the Sun: Reconstruction in Carroll Parish, Louisiana, 1867–1880
Democrats and conservative Republicans tried unsuccessfully to oust the faction from power by uniting around compromise candidates. In 1875, they ousted the Benham faction after one last corruption scandal ruined its members' reputations for good, marking a turning point for Reconstruction in the parish. The Natchez District, encompassing two Louisiana Delta parishes, Concordia and Tensas, and four Mississippi counties, has been subject to several high-quality studies, including Justin Behrend's Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War, which examines how the early political grassroots mobilization of Black voters affected the structure and prac-tice of democracy throughout Reconstruction.' [...]in writing on Carroll Parish, Caldwell omits several key political events addressed in this article, including the Benham faction's 1875 corruption scandal, the forced resignation of Black police jurors in 1879, and the height of Black political power in 1880.
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Violence in the Hill Country : the Texas frontier in the Civil War era
\"The nineteenth-century Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. And as in many borderlands, it was a place marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually triumphed over others. This book trace the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through the crisis of secession and the Indian wars, and into the Reconstruction period, ultimately showing how patterns of violence both defined and revealed the priorities of white settlers in the Hill Country--most importantly, the advancement of market integration and state-building in the broader Southwest\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Southern Baptist Slaveholding Women and Mythologizers
Christian slaveholding should not be forgotten or minimized, nor should its mythologies go unchallenged or uncritiqued. This article surveys some of the leading Southern Baptist women slaveholders and mythologizers before and after the U.S. Civil War. It examines sources of SBC hagiography about the Convention foremothers and their persistent apologia for slaveholding. In particular, it discusses how female mythologizers in the antebellum and postbellum eras linked slaveholding, evangelism, and mission identity. It demonstrates how postbellum Southern Baptist women chose to view women slaveholders as moral exemplars for their current missions. It concludes that understanding the myth-making by and about women slaveholders in Southern Baptist patriarchal society is instructive for understanding this group of American Evangelical Protestants in Christian history.
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