scholarly journals Review of Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
Selection For ◽  
John Marshall

Published: Pat Newcombe, Review of Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times, 111 LAW LIB. J. 605 (2019).This Article reviews Joel Richard Paul's book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times. The Author found this scholarly work to be very readable. Paul relies on ample and deep primary sources, yet manages to present John Marshall in a very human and accessible way. This narrative would be an excellent selection for any academic or public library, especially those that collect in the American history area, and it is highly recommended.

The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Sylvia Snowiss ◽  
Charles F. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
John Marshall

The Brother

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt X. Metzmeier
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
Mason County ◽  
John Marshall

Alexander K. Marshall was the younger brother of US Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall. A gentleman farmer, he practiced law more as a passion than a profession. Despite a workman-like career as an appellate lawyer, he left a slender legal legacy. However, his fertile fields in Mason County, Kentucky, are still tilled, and the mailbox outside the home still bears the Marshall name.

Seven The Ninth Amendment and the Marshall Court

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lash Kurt T
Keyword(s):  
Original Meaning ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Judicial Opinions ◽  
The One ◽  
Ninth Amendment ◽  
John Marshall

This chapter continues the discussion of the history of the Ninth Amendment and eventually takes it to the one place where no history of it can be found—the judicial opinions of Chief Justice John Marshall. It is argued that different people used the Ninth Amendment in different ways. Some read the amendment as significantly restricting federal power; others insisted that the amendment placed few if any constraints on federal power. But these are differences of degree, not kind. Every court and commentator who took a position on the Ninth Amendment in the initial decades of the Constitution—whether Federalist or Anti-Federalist or Democratic-Republican, nationalist or states' rightist, drafter or ratifier—all described the Ninth as echoing the same federalist principles as the Tenth. Rather than considering the original meaning of the Ninth Amendment, the chapter focuses on what happened to the original meaning of the Ninth Amendment.

Normal, Illinois; Chicago; Wilberforce; and Chicago Public Library

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethelene Whitmire
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Public Library ◽  
College Experiences ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Wilberforce University ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Training

This chapter details Regina's years in Normal, Illinois; and then shifts to her return to Chicago and her college experiences at Wilberforce University. It was in Normal that she attended school with the future Illinois governor and presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II. In terms of her experiences in Normal, Regina later credited an understanding librarian as a guiding influence in her early life and training which has brought success in her chosen field. Meanwhile, Regina's experiences at the Chicago Public Library were mostly negative. However, she later said she was influenced by Vivian G. Harsh—Chicago Public Library's head librarian. The current Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library is named after her.

Notes on Uighur Medicine, Especially on the Uighur Siddhasāra Tradition

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Zieme
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
History Of ◽  
Translation Methods ◽  
General Translation

There are many primary sources that allow us to reconstruct Old Uighur medicine. This article considers those that demonstrate the following influences: folk medicine, Syriac medicine, Indian and Chinese medicine. The article includes general remarks on the Uighur translations of the Siddhasāra and its role in the history of Uighur medicine: the bilingual version, a list of the preserved parts of the monolingual Uighur version, medicinal plant names, and comments on general translation methods. The Uighur translation deviates considerably from the Sanskrit, but it exploits the medical knowledge it contains in interesting ways. A translation of such a medical compendium like the Siddhasāra was, nor is, an easy task. That we observe equivalents, substitutes and Turkic equivalents in the Uighur version is no wonder. Each of these has to be evaluated carefully. Much scholarly work has already been carried out by H. W. Bailey, R. Emmerick and D. Maue. In particular I would like to mention the contriburion of the first editor Reşid Rahmeti (Arat) [Rachmati] who read the texts first and translated them without knowledge of their real source. At that time he had already surmised that the model for the translation must have been a substantial work.

A Flute Made of Human Bone: Blood Meridian and the Survivors of American History

Prospects ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 461-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy L. Parrish ◽  
Elizabeth A. Spiller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American History ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
American Institution ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Blood Meridian ◽  
New York Public Library ◽  
European Values

Seventy years after its publication, librarians at the New York Public Library catalogued Moby Dick with other books that explored the finer points of whaling. In making this bibliographic classification, librarians at this most American exemplar of that most American institution, the public lending library, read Melville's novel not as a great national epic but as an instance of the particular, the regional, the ethnic, the vocational. Given that American readers (not to mention critics of American literature) continue to be more interested in the particular than the epic, it is not surprising that Melville's successor, Cormac Mc-Carthy's epic Blood Meridian (1985), has failed to attract the critical attention it deserves. Writing resolutely against the contemporary grain, McCarthy treats American history and identity as if it were a continuous whole. Although revisionist, McCarthy's version of American history offers little comfort to those who would rewrite American history from the point of view of the peoples who were obliterated so that American history might fulfill its Destiny. Where a typical revisionist history might read Manifest Destiny as a story about Europeans and European values destroying local lands and cultures, McCarthy insists that this kind of history is fragmentary because it depends on a denial of the fact that we only arrive at such critical positions of moral superiority because we are the survivors and successors to this Destiny. His novel examines the burgeoning American empire of the mid-19th century not to indulge in the compensatory pleasures of self-accusation but to remind us of how particularizing versions of history necessarily deny how we have become to be who we are.

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