Caroline Light: 2 books
Stand Your Ground
A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin
After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided...
That Pride of Race and Character
The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
“It
has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,”
declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons are
partly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race and
character which has supported them through so many ages...