Funding post-secondary education can be an incredibly daunting task. Canadians' Education Funding Guide is by far the most comprehensive guide I have come across that focuses solely on this task. In the 19th century, Horace Mann called education a 'great equalizer' and I believe this to be true. John McLaughlin uses his years of experience and expertise to create a guide focused on providing tools and resources that can be used to remove funding barriers for families and increase access to post-secondary education. The guide is uniquely Canadian and provides an incredible resource to families and individuals.-Debbie Thompson, President and CEOOlds College of Agriculture and Technology
"Bearing aloft the flag of his country in the final charge" by Company A, 103rd New York Volunteers at the Battle of Antietam, Captain Henry Augustus Sand fell wounded. He penned a letter to his family in Brooklyn Heights while lying on the battlefield, and then three more before dying of his wounds six weeks later. His complete correspondence from the field, covering the first 18 months of the Civil War, paints a vivid picture of combat and life in a 19th-century German-Irish immigrant family.Captain Sand helped raise the 103rd--known as "the German Grenadiers" and "Seward's Infantry"--at the beginning of the war. The unit joined General Ambrose Burnside's 1862 campaigns in North Carolina and Virginia. His letters were collected and transcribed by his sister, Emily Isabella Rossire nee Sand, and illustrated with her own watercolors of the Antietam battlefield and sketches by their younger brother, Maximilian Edward Sand.