Kim Tolley Livres

The life of Susan Nye Hutchison, a teacher during the Second Great Awakening, serves as a lens to explore the transformative power of education in early 19th-century America. Through her journals and various documents, Kim Tolley highlights Hutchison's experiences with family, career, and slavery, revealing the motivations of educated women who pursued teaching for economic, spiritual, and professional growth. The book emphasizes the significant impact these women had on American society during a pivotal historical period.

"This book provides the first comprehensive history of opposition to school vaccination in the United States from 1800 to the present. As vaccine-preventable diseases have increased in the 21st century, Americans have expressed a growing concern over opposition to school vaccination requirements. This book examines what triggered anti-vaccination activism in the past, and why it continues to this day"--