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FORUM: Mark deWolfe Howe, <i>The Garden and the Wilderness</i> Introduction
No full textMark deWolfe Howe's classic, The Garden and the Wilderness: Religion and Government in American Constitutional History, was published in 1965. Notwithstanding the many subsequent judicial and scholarly developments in First Amendment religion clause jurisprudence, this slim volume remains among the best efforts to consider seriously the interrelated histories of law and religion in the United States. Beautifully written and economical in its expression, Howe's book is often cited but less often carefully read. Unlike many who write about the religion clauses, Howe understood the deeply contingent nature of the dependence of religion and law one upon the other.</jats:p
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
Mark DeWolfe Howe and the Fight for Racial Equality
No full text"The greatest brutality of our time," wrote Mark Howe, "is racial inequality . . . . " The apparent simplicity of his statement belies the complexity of feeling and thought which underlay it. There was of course the moral imperative to do away with iniquity. But there was also the historical imperative to bring American law and life into conformity with principles built into our national covenant almost a century ago and still unimplemented. Without the conclusive force of history, morality alone would not–for Howe, lawyer and historian–have justified the corrective action of the Court on which he lavished his relentless scholarship
Mark DeWolfe Howe and the Fight for Racial Equality
No full textThe greatest brutality of our time, wrote Mark Howe, is racial inequality . . . . The apparent simplicity of his statement belies the complexity of feeling and thought which underlay it. There was of course the moral imperative to do away with iniquity. But there was also the historical imperative to bring American law and life into conformity with principles built into our national covenant almost a century ago and still unimplemented. Without the conclusive force of history, morality alone would not–for Howe, lawyer and historian–have justified the corrective action of the Court on which he lavished his relentless scholarship
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Howe: HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. JUSTICE HOLMES AND HAROLD J. LASKI, 1916-1935
No full textA Review of HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. JUSTICE HOLMES AND HAROLD J. LASKI, 1916-1935. Edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe
Howe: HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. JUSTICE HOLMES AND HAROLD J. LASKI, 1916-1935
No full textA Review of HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. JUSTICE HOLMES AND HAROLD J. LASKI, 1916-1935. Edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe
The Clouds: A Portrait of One Family in Wartime Cambridge
No full textThe following is a portion of a work in progress, a biography of Mark DeWolfe and Helen Howe, two Bostonians born soon after the turn of the century. The book describes the adult years of this sister and brother, each of whom participated in American life at many levels important to the social and intellectual currents of the country. This section of the biography describes Cambridge in the World War II years
Bayard memorial address at Lehigh Founder's Day
No full textThis is a pamphlet titled "Exercises at the Celebration of the Founder's Day, Thursday, October 14, 1880, with the Memorial Address by the Honorable Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware." It contains an outline of Lehigh University's Founder's Day events, the scripture lesson given by the Right Revered Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, and a memorial address given by Thomas Francis Bayard, Senior. Founder's Day honors Asa Packer, the university's founder. Bayard's speech provides some details about Packer's life
Ford Hall Forum program, February, 1928
No full textProgram for the February 1928 Ford Hall line up. Speakers include Thurgood Marshall, McGeorge Bundy, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, and Dr. Oscar Handlin. Originally, February 22nd speaker was Walter P. Reuther. His name has been crossed out and replaced with the stamped name of Oxnam. Inside of program include speaker portraits and biographies. Back cover has lecture list for the entire season.https://dc.suffolk.edu/fhf-docs/1017/thumbnail.jp
