{"id":861,"date":"2019-03-13T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=861"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:20:23","slug":"praise-for-prof-will-kubys-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2019\/03\/13\/praise-for-prof-will-kubys-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise for Prof. Will Kuby&#8217;s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/history\/profiles\/faculty\/cwj332.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Will Kuby<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8216;s book, <em>Conjugal\u00a0Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United\u00a0States<\/em>, published by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/conjugal-misconduct\/F4F64C2EE6CD653AB273E56CDAA79021#fndtn-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge University Press<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000\">in 2018 and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conjugal-Misconduct-Twentieth-Century-Cambridge-Historical\/dp\/110716026X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available for purchase<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, continues to receive praise from top scholars.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Angela Fernandez, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, reviewed Kuby&#8217;s book for Legal History JOTWELL and began as follows:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The rhetoric of a \u201cmarriage crisis\u201d is a familiar one. William Kuby\u2019s excellent new book gives us an incisive history of the way that a sense of crisis was invoked in debates about a variety of forms of marital misconduct and the backlash they inspired in the progressive era. Kuby expertly marches us through the way that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American judges, state legislators, polemicists, and reformers of all stripes relied on ideas of common sense public policy and moral decency to police marriage in each of the five instances of marital misconduct he examines.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #999999\">&#8211;<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Read the full review<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/legalhist.jotwell.com\/the-marriage-crisis-and-its-many-backlashes-in-twentieth-century-america\/?fbclid=IwAR14tmN6d0q_TJeNkyEXsE8hIfIU3Z2SilgotvQ2qFAdLQJJypntQzZJn64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Will Kuby&#8217;s book, Conjugal\u00a0Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United\u00a0States, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018 and available for purchase, continues to receive praise from top scholars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2019\/03\/13\/praise-for-prof-will-kubys-book\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35044,35701,35702,92693],"class_list":{"0":"post-861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faculty-news","8":"tag-faculty-news","9":"tag-what-history-teaches-you","10":"tag-why-history-matters","11":"tag-william-kuby","12":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Praise for Prof. Will Kuby&#039;s Book - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2019\/03\/13\/praise-for-prof-will-kubys-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Praise for Prof. Will Kuby&#039;s Book - History Archive: Jul 2007 - Oct 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prof. Will Kuby&#039;s book, Conjugal\u00a0Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United\u00a0States, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018 and available for purchase, continues to receive praise from top scholars.  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