The Property of the Nation Brett Mandel combined with elegant and revealing

combined with elegant and revealing excerpts from the writings of Rachel Carson and Louise Dickinson Rich

it traces the evolution of American higher education and the role of Catholics in the United States over more than two centuries

Later in life

the differing impacts of national mental health policies on women and on men

and health care for lesbian patients

The Property of the Nation Brett Mandel combined with elegant and revealingFinalist: George Washington Prize George Washington was an affluent slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy were vital to the young country's survival. And yet, he remains largely free of the "elitist" label affixed to his contemporaries, as Washington evolved in public memory during the nineteenth century into a man of the common people, the father of democracy. This memory, we learn in The Property of the Nation, was a