The essays in Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women's Education at the College of St. Catherine examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100-year history, linking the story through a central theme: the paradox of institutional goals that seek both to liberate and to constrain women. Since its founding, St. Catherine's (now St. Catherine University) has promoted women's leadership and autonomy, sometimes by design, sometimes...

Over a 30-year period, from the 1950s to the 80s, a large segment of the Mississippi River barge transportation industry boomed and then collapsed. Many barge lines and half a dozen inland shipyards suffered financial failures. The primary causes were government intervention in environmental and transportation policy; government tax-shelter policy; and the influence of half a dozen multinational grain companies on the barge freight marketplace. As...