in memoriam: professor william w. van alstyne

Van Alstyne, one of the foremost law scholars, and William & Mary's Lee Professor of Law from 2004 to 2012, died on January 29 Southern California... Bill was one of the great figures American law, and member of William & Mary community for many years, wrote Law School Dean Davison M. ..

bourgeois revolution and the us civil war

The slave owners were pushed into an expansionist strategy by the class structure of southern society, in which their position could only be maintained by pushing out both into the North American West, and into other national territories in Latin America. ..

the fight for bilingual education

The plan identifies “the Mexican element as “the greatest problem confronting Southern California today.” To solve that “problem” the plan calls for segregated schools to educate Mexican American children by teaching English “to replace the Spanish [language] as the medium of..

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