Article: Editor's page.(Brief Article)(Editorial)

After a brief interruption by our special Detroit issue in the spring of 2001, we have resumed the practice of beginning each spring issue with the winner of the previous year's student essay contest. This year's winning entry, chosen by a panel of five reviewers drawn from the Review's staff and Board of Editors, describes the vexed--and to modern readers, vexing--state of women's marital and property rights during Michigan's early years. For some time, historians have recognized that the story of women's legal rights does not follow a simple, linear path from restriction to liberation. And Debra Viles's story certainly follows no such path. As she describes court ...

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