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Item Signs, Marks, and Private Parts: Doctors, Legal Discourses, and Evidence of Rape in the United States, 1823-1930(University of Texas Press, 1998-01) Robertson, StephenItem Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psycho-Sexual Development and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s-1960s(Oxford University Press, 2001-01) Robertson, StephenItem Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921(Oxford University Press, 2002) Robertson, StephenItem "Making Right a Girl’s Ruin: Working-Class Legal Culture and Forced Marriage in New York City, 1890-1950(2002-08) Robertson, StephenItem Hopelessly Entangled in Nordic Pre-Suppositions: Catholic Participation in the American Eugenics Society in the 1920s(Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2004) Leon, SharonThis article examines the involvement of U.S. Catholics in the American Eugenics Society during the 1920′s. While Catholics were often opponents of eugenics, John A. Ryan and John Montgomery Cooper, both Catholic priests and intellectuals, were prominent in the debate within the Committee on Cooperation with Clergymen of the American Eugenics Society. Ryan and Cooper repeatedly examined the scientific bases for eugenicists’ claims and sought to shift the movement away from its racist and classist elements. Soon after Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii formalized Catholic opposition to eugenics and other efforts to control reproduction, such as birth control, Ryan and Cooper finally broke with the AES.Item A Human Being, and Not a Mere Social Factor: Catholic Strategies for Dealing with Sterilization Statutes in the 1920s(Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History, 2004-06) Leon, SharonThis article reviews the developing strategies of Catholic opposition to state laws for compulsory sterilization of so-called ‘feeble-minded’ residents of state institutions during the 1920s. In 1927 the Supreme Court, in its landmark decision Buck v. Bell, affirmed the constitutionality of such laws. This article traces the work of Catholic moral theologians, such as John A. Ryan, and representatives of various lay organizations in opposing such laws and educating Catholic laity on the natural law issues in the debate. In 1930 the National Catholic Welfare Conference published four pamphlets in a series entitled ‘Problems of Mental Deficiency’ that provided a full compliment of medical, legal, and moral objections to the laws. On 31 December 1930 Pope Pius XI in his encyclical ‘Casti Connubii’ provided an authoritative pronouncement on eugenics and sterilization that reaffirmed Catholic opposition to eugenics policy initiatives.Item What’s Law Got to Do with it? Legal Records and Sexual Histories(2005-01) Robertson, StephenItem Seduction, Sexual Violence and Marriage in New York City, 1886-1955(University of Illinois Press, 2006) Robertson, StephenItem ”Boys, of course, cannot be raped”: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1955(Blackwell, 2006-08) Robertson, StephenItem Reconstructing our National Narrative: American Historiography at a Crossroads(2007) Prout, JerryItem Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race and Prostitution in the 1920s(Sage, 2009-05) Robertson, StephenItem This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s(Oxford University Press, 2010) Robertson, StephenItem Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the American History of Sexual Violence(University of Texas Press, 2010-05) Robertson, StephenItem Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem(University of Texas Press, 2012-09) Robertson, Stephen; White, Shane; Garton, Stephen; White, GrahamItem The Company’s Voice in the Workplace: Labor Spies, Propaganda and Personnel Management, 1918-1920(Duke University Press, 2013) Robertson, StephenItem Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s(Sage, 2013-09) Robertson, Stephen; White, Shane; Garton, StephenItem Build, Analyse, and Generalise: Community Transcription of the Papers of the War Department and the Development of Scripto(Ashgate, 2014) Leon, SharonRRCHNM’s foray into community transcription with the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and the development of Scripto offers some significant lessons for cultural heritage institutions and professionals who want to engage with their constituents in meaningful ways. Primarily, we gained a dedicated and engaged audience for PWD, and a tremendous insight into their motivations. Equally important, the development process for the generalized tool, and its role in the larger ecosystem of open-source software that enables widespread user participation in cultural heritage projects, points to viable directions for the development of subsequent tools. Together this case study of PWD and the story of the creation of Scripto suggest that a wide range of cultural heritage organizations can launch and sustain lightweight transcription projects that encourage increased engagement with core audiences.Item Institutional Review Blog(2014-02-24) Schrag, ZacharyThis is an archive of Institutional Review Blog (www.institutionalreviewblog.com), a blog that seeks to inform the debate over IRB review of research in the humanities and social sciences by collecting breaking news, commentary, and background information on the subject. Institutional Review Blog is maintained by Zachary M. Schrag, Professor of History, George Mason University. The first file includes all text of the blog from its founding in December 2006 through 28 August 2012. The second file begins with the next entry, 31 August 2012, and continues through the end of January 2017. That end point was chosen to include the blog's coverage of the revised U.S. regulations on human subjects research, published in the Federal Register on 19 January 2017.Item References for The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro(2014-06-11) Schrag, ZacharyFor production reasons, the paperback edition of The Great Society Subway does not include footnote or endnote references for the new preface. While I tried to make clear in the main text of the preface the main sources of my information, I offer complete citations here for those who are interested.Item Scholars as Students Introductory Digital History Training for Mid - Career Historians(2015-09-01) Leon, Sharon; Brennan, Sheila A.Mid-career college and university faculty generally have achieved a significant level of expertise in their field of study. At the same time, research suggests that experts may not be so clear about every step of the cognitive work they undertake to attack a new research question or problem. In fact, the more expert an individual is, the less easy it is for that person to surface their process and articulate it for someone else. Only by being consciously pushed to consider, reconsider, and articulate these methodological assumptions, can we open a flexible space for new approaches that can complicate and compliment existing habits of mind. Together, these ideas make up some of the underlying approach that the team at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University (Mason) took to design and in conducting the Doing Digital History (Doing DH) two-week intensive summer institute for mid-career American historians. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities as an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities in August 2014 and under the direction of Sharon M. Leon and Sheila A. Brennan, the effort brought together twenty-three mid-career digital novices to learn the theories and methods of digital history. Experts in their field of American history, these novices in digital methodologies were nervous, unsure of their own abilities, and intimidated by digital history. They all left as confident digital ambassadors with new skills, insights, and motivation to pursue digital work and become active participants in the growing community of digital humanists.