Books by Barbara Young (University of Minnesota) Welke

This book offers a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and citizenship from the founding of the United States through the 1920s. Welke's research characterizes this period as a time of 'borders of belonging' in which able white men's privilege depended on the subject status of disabled persons, racialized others, and women.

Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit.