Author: Kathleen Holscher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199781818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Religious Lessons tells the story of Zellers v. Huff, a court case that challenged the employment of nearly 150 Catholic sisters in public schools across New Mexico in 1948. Known nationally as the "Dixon case," after one of the towns involved, it was the most famous in a series of midcentury lawsuits, all targeting what opponents provocatively dubbed "captive schools." Spearheaded by Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the publicity campaign built around Zellers drew on centuries-old rhetoric of Catholic captivity to remind Americans about the threat of Catholic power in the post-War era, and the danger Catholic sisters dressed in full habits posed to American education. Americans at midcentury were reckoning with the U.S. Supreme Court's new mandate for a "wall of separation" between church and state. At no time since the nation's founding was the Establishment Clause studied so carefully by the nation's judiciary and its people. While Zellers never reached the Supreme Court, its details were familiar to hundreds of thousands of citizens who read about them in magazines and heard them discussed in church on Sunday mornings. For many Americans, Catholic and not, the scenario of sisters in veils teaching children embodied the high stakes of the era's church-state conflicts, and became an occasion to assess the implications of separation in their lives. Through close study of the Dixon case, Kathleen Holscher brings together the perspectives of legal advocacy groups, Catholic sisters, and citizens who cared about their schools. She argues that the captive school crusade was a transitional episode in the Protestant-Catholic conflicts that dominate American church-state history. Religious Lessons also goes beyond legal discourse to consider the interests of Americans--women religious included--who did not formally articulate convictions about the separation principle. The book emphasizes the everyday experiences, inside and outside classrooms, that defined the church-state relationship for these people, and that made these constitutional questions relevant to them.
Religious Lessons
Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the ... Session of the ... Congress, with Reports of the Heads of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Documents
Author: United States. President
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Languages : en
Pages : 912
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AT THE COMMENCEMENT F THE THIRD SESSION OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Chaperito
Author: Henrietta Martinez Christmas
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-third Congress (the First, Third Session of the Thirty-fourth Congress.).
Author: United States. - Pierce (Franklin) President. [1853-57.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The Pacific Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Senate Documents
Author: United States Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Report of the Secretary of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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The Place Names of New Mexico
Author: Robert Julyan
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635114X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New Mexico's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily life--they can all be found in this book.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635114X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New Mexico's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily life--they can all be found in this book.
Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico
Author: New Mexico. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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