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A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries ... Read more

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A greatbook viewing higher ed history from a human level.
A great book, providing a very human view of the development of highereducation. Andrew Rice is the perfect vehicle to explore Oxford, Tulane,andseveral experimental curricular attempts at collegiate education.Reynolds is a gifted writer. Her research is deep, her charactorscompelling. ... Read more

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""Manzanar National Historic SiteLocation Inyo County, California, USANearest city Independence, CaliforniaCoordinates 36°44'0"N 118°9'40"W / 36.73333, -118.16111Area 814 acres (329.4 ha)Established March 3, 1992Visitors 88,200 (in 2006)Governing body National Park ServiceManzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten concentration camps (see Terminology section, below) where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately 230 miles (370.1 km) northeast of Los Angeles. Manzanar (which means "apple orchard" in Spanish) was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the former camp sites, and it is now the Manzanar National Historic Site.Long before the first prisoners arrived in March 1942, Manzanar was home to Native Americans, who mostly lived in villages near several creeks in the area, and then to the ranchers and miners who established the town of Manzanar in 1910, but had abandoned the town by 1929 after the City of Los Angeles purchased the water rights to virtually the entire area. As different as these groups might seem, they are tied together by the common thread of forced relocation.Since the last prisoners left in 1945, former prisoners and others have worked to protect Manzanar and to establish it as a National Historic Site that preserves and interprets the site for current and future generations. Although the primary focus is the Japanese American Internment era, as specified in the legislation that created the Manzanar National Historic Site, the site also interprets the town of Manzanar, the ranch days, the settlement by the Owens Valley Paiute, and the role that water played in shaping the history of the Owens Valley."" (Wikipedia, retrieved 1/16/2008)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar ... Read more