San Antonio College Library

In the troubled times before the Civil War, Lydia Maria Child's impassioned antislavery writings attracted more people to the abolition movement than any other published works. Deborah Clifford here paints a vivid portrait of Child and the social milieu in which she worked. In 1825, Child captivated Boston's literary world with her first novel, "Hobomok", which took on the unmentionable subject of a white woman's marriage to an American Indian. Her...

Drawing on a range of Japanese sources and illustrated with documentary photographs, this book is a history of the more than six years of American occupation which affected the various levels of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. The author provides an image of the turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and...

This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommending that we abolish welfare reform, but his position launched a debate culminating in President Clinton's proposal "to end welfare as we know it." This...

Examines the role of the church in race relations before and after the Civil War.

Why was Massachusetts one of the few Northern states to grant African-American males the right to vote? Why did it pass personal liberty laws, which helped protect fugitive slaves from federal authorities in the two decades immediately preceding the Civil War? Beyond Garrison finds answers to these important questions in unfamiliar and surprising places. Its protagonists are not the noble supporters of American abolitionism grouped around William...