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      Cover image for The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis
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      The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis

      Shawn Francis Peters

      Shawn Francis Peters’s spellbinding story of the
      Minneapolis Monster details the trial of Harry Hayward-a serial seducer and schemer deemed a Svengali, a lunatic, and a man without a soul…

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      The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights

      Shawn Francis Peters

      In the late 1960s an Amish community considered state education detrimental to its own values. When the state claimed truancy and took Jonas Yoder to court, a legal battle of…

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      When Bad Men Combine

      Shawn Francis Peters

      The Star Route scandal captured the US's attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the country characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis…

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      Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses: Religious Persecution and the Dawn of the Rights Revolution

      Shawn Francis Peters

      While millions of Americans fought the Nazis, liberty was under attack at home with the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses who were intimidated and even imprisoned for refusing to salute the…

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      When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law

      Shawn Francis Peters (Writing Specialist, School of Education, Writing Specialist, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

      This book to fully examines the web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of religion-based medical…

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      The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era

      Shawn Francis Peters (Humanities Educator, Humanities Educator, Center for Educational Opportunity, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

      In the spring of 1968, a group of Catholic antiwar activists barged into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records, and burned the documents in…

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