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John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown's sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. InThe Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women's involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death. As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown's second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering. In the aftermath of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called \"relics\" of Brown's raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war's most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown's daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown's raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.

In March of 2020, institutions of higher education sent their students home and moved their classroom instruction online. While this prevented the spread of COVID, it caused students to face unique challenges impacting their social emotional needs and mental health. As college students returned to campus, they had to learn to navigate a “new normal”. Social emotional needs and mental health continue to be affected, which can significantly impair student’s academic success and ultimately affect their future career and personal opportunities. This was particularly true for candidates enrolled in teacher preparation programs as they attempted to navigate the changing environments of both K-12 schools and higher education. Core components of teacher preparation programs are field experiences and student teaching. With the closure of schools and/or move to provide virtual instruction, clinical experiences for teacher candidates were impacted. The changing educational environments required teacher candidates to exhibit strong social emotional skills and to develop those skills in their K-12 students. A survey was conducted to examine perceptions of students majoring in education on their transition from high school to higher education and the impact of COVID on their academic performance and social and emotional well-being.

The recovery of the ‘true principles’ of stained glass as an integral part of the Gothic Revival of the nineteenth century grew out of a complex relationship between restoration, reinvention, and startling creativity. The tensions between craft, commerce, art, and scholarship were quick to surface in Victorian debates about restoration, and the descriptions of earlier nineteenth-century restoration practices found in the relevant literature in the years from c. 1900 onwards, much of it derogatory, imply that there was a homogeneous approach to stained glass restoration that could be described as both ‘Victorian’ and destructive. Infamous restorations, such as the Betton and Evans work at Winchester College, have been compared (unfavourably) to the projects in which pioneering stained glass scholar Charles Winston exerted an ‘enlightened’ influence. This article considers to what extent, and why, medieval stained glass required restoration by the Victorians, and to what extent they rescued rather than diminished an endangered heritage. It discusses the surprising variety of approaches adopted across the period, and to what extent these principles and approaches have shaped and influenced modern practice. It will also suggest that by the turn of the twentieth century the proponents of stained glass and its restoration, predominantly artists, were beginning to lose touch with an increasingly science-based understanding of the underlying causes of stained glass deterioration, factors that are also now undermining the survival of our nineteenth-century stained glass inheritance. In many late twentieth-century restorations of ancient stained glass, the work of Victorian restorers was ruthlessly stripped away, usually with little, if any, documentation. A proper understanding of the significance and impact of this complex history is essential if we are to conserve historic stained glass responsibly and ethically, a challenge that now extends to the conservation and protection of the works of the Gothic Revival as well.

Sarah Cole Brown, AHIP, FMLA, was born in 1911, in Conway, AR, and died on Aug 8, 2015, in Birmingham, AL, at the age of 103. She earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Hendrix College in Conway in 1933 and then went on to earn a bachelor's degree in library science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1934. After initial positions as a high school librarian, an academic librarian, and a librarian in the military during World War II, she became the head cataloger at the University of Alabama (UAB) Medical Center Library in Birmingham in 1948. She spent the rest of her professional career at the UAB campus, as she was appointed chief librarian at the medical center in 1955, and in October 1971, she became the first director of the newly opened Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences.

In 2018 the Eudora Welty Society met and held sessions at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature conference in Austin, Texas, and at the American Literature Association meeting in San Francisco, California. Panel topics included Nasty Women in the Fiction of Eudora Welty; New Work on Eudora Welty; Murders and Murderers: Eudora Welty's Take on Detective Fiction; and Welty By and By. Topics for EWS panels at the American Literature Association meeting in San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020, will be \"Welty and the Body\" and \"Welty, Modernism, Media.\"

In an interview, new national officer for Unite in Health, Sarah Carpenter talked about her priorities, aims and aspirations at a time of challenge and apprehension in public health. Carpenter said that the health visitor role became a lot more about child protection issues. That is where everyone has been struggling most because they all know that the public health role is the absolutely critical bit. Child protection is the sad end of the scale. The job that health visitors do is really positive work with families. Something she had like to focus on more is making sure that they really engage with their members on all levels and fight on the issues that matter to them. She think they need to bring their members with them in lots of the campaigns that they do. So she will be making sure that their officers and their reps know what they are doing nationally and come with them on the journey.