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50 And Forward: Sandor Teszler Library Since 1969, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher, Melissa Clapp
50 And Forward: Sandor Teszler Library Since 1969, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher, Melissa Clapp
Library Exhibits
Wofford's Sandor Teszler Library, opened in 1969, celebrated its 50th anniversary in August 2019, and this exhibit features the growth and development of the library over the past half century.
The Antebellum Development Of The Penitentiary Debate In South Carolina, Florence Gregorie Sloan
The Antebellum Development Of The Penitentiary Debate In South Carolina, Florence Gregorie Sloan
Student Scholarship
The early 19th century was marked by reform movements aimed at alleviating poverty, reducing crime, decreasing illiteracy, and providing better care for the mentally ill. In the United States, as in Europe, the debate over prison reform arose from the growing public fear that the stability of social institutions and values was crumbling, especially because lawlessness abounded across the country in the Jacksonian era.[1] Reformers sought a way to save and preserve the established social order, and reformers found their cure-all solution in the establishment of penitentiaries, which were institutions that sought to transform the criminal into an …