Harriet Hyman Alonso is professor of history at The City College of New York, CUNY, where she currently serves as chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Center for Worker Education. Her most recent book, Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), won the Warren F. Kuehl Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.