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• http://inpropriapersona.com/articles/the-home-is-about-more-than-property/
• Property, the home, and Carpenter v. United States
• Benefits of viewing the right to privacy as a property right
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• Progressives and
• Howard B. White on science and privacy (1951)
• If an arbitration agreement isn’t accessible, is it still valid?
• The “picket line” of national quarantine (1897)
• http://inpropriapersona.com/articles/democracy-and-the-privacy-of-communications-1967/
• Orin Kerr: trespass was never the exclusive Fourth Amendment test (2012)
• Protecting the nation’s private homes by policing the public sphere
• The postal network is a liminal space between public and private
• Secrecy versus privacy (re: abortion in Ireland)
• Lesson from the last week of my first online class: don’t try to duplicate the in-person experience
• Science, Religion, and Temperance: pamphlets from 1880
• http://inpropriapersona.com/articles/morton-horwitz-on-the-public-private-distinction-1982/
• The Radical Remedy in Social Science (1887): Eugenics
• The form of letters forces relationships
• Henry Hitchcock considers privacy and telegrams (1879)
• “The Adulteration of Intelligence” (1883)
• Attacks on government related to the telegraph in the nineteenth century
• What Place for Family Privacy? (1999)
• Privacy for Whom?
• The home is about more than property
• Democracy and the privacy of communications (1967)
• Morton Horwitz on the public-private distinction (1982)
• Salus populi suprema lex: law and public health
• Freedom to contract at the end of the nineteenth century
• http://inpropriapersona.com/articles/women-and-pockets-1885/
• “Women and Pockets” (1885)
• Thinking about theories of historiography
• The archive and the state
• http://inpropriapersona.com/articles/the-telegraph-and-the-domestic-home/
• The telegraph and the domestic home
• The “third-party problem”: one reason telegrams were not constitutionally protected
• The telegraph and business invasions of privacy
• http://inpropriapersona.com/articles/locke-where-there-is-no-law-there-is-no-freedom/
• Locke: "where there is no law, there is no freedom"
• Privacy, autonomy, and birth control in America, 1860-1900
• Women, public health, and the police power
• More articles
• Privacy, autonomy, and birth control in America, 1860-1900
• Victorian domestic specialization and gender roles
• Salus populi suprema lex: law and public health
• Federal vs. State Power in Antebellum America
• Privacy and the silo/filter/echo problem
• The telegraph and business invasions of privacy
• Smallpox inoculation and quarantine in colonial America
• "Webs of Significance," Clifford Geertz
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