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In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural ...
Cleburne County and Its Peopleis a historical account of Cleburne County and the men and women who made it what it is today. These men and women were as diverse as the Ozark Mountain's rock-laden landscapes. The pioneers who settled Cleburne County were as strong as the land, of hardy pioneer stock, and bold in thought and action. They were shrewd, strong-willed individuals who brought staunch beliefs and strong disciplines with them and settled in an untamed wilderness which became Cleburne County. Cleburne County and Its Peoplehas drawn from the past and the present--chronicling the lives of settlers facing hardships and tragedies, discovering profound beauty, mastering vast natural resour...
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Johann Jakob Hamp was born in Eglosheim, Germany. He married Euphrosina (Ivey Rosanna) Kittelberger (1787-1879) in 1813. They immigrated to the United States in 1817 settling in Pennsylvania then Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Michigan, California, Colorado and elsewhere. Includes ancestors to 1520. Descendents include Mormons.
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Edgy and ironic, Clint Catalyst exposes the underside of all his many subjects - gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith ("Some New Kind of Kick") or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood ("Metaphor, and Remorse"), Catalyst reveals his characters' innermost longings.
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John Earle (1612-1660), with his wife, Mary, and three children, immigrated in the mid-1600s from Nye, England to Northumberland (now Westmoreland) County, Virginia. Some sons later moved to land in Frederick County, Virginia. In 1787, Elias Earl (1762-1823), direct descendant in the fifth generation, married Frances Wilton Robinson and moved to establish the town of Centerville on land that became Anderson County, South Carolina. The home plantation became known as Evergreen. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, California and elsewhere.