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Just 9 days before her 7th birthday, Virginia (Ginger) Hansen heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. She lived on the Philippine Island of Mindanao with her two brothers, her sister, her mother, and father. This title presents the experiences of this family during World War II.

A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older. It examines a variety of lifelong obsessions and frustrates various expectations that life's fogs dissipate as we age. It embodies midlife retrospection suitable for middle-aged population.

Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, borderlands studies, comparative history, and cultural transfer. It offers a provocative reinterpretation of Civil War - era diplomacy.

Genora Johnson Dollinger helped create the Women's Emergency Brigade and became one of the strike's leaders. She and her followers helped to achieve victory for the United Auto Workers and generated the first contract ever signed between GM and the UAW. This biography tells about one of the first female labor activists.

Offers an overview of how Americans and the government have remembered, commemorated, and interpreted the history of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), its battles and its soldiers. This book focuses on how the doughboys fought, how they interacted with Allied soldiers, and how heroic feats became the stuff of myth and legend.

Although contemporary professional use of the term dates from the mid-twentieth century, ""urban design"" has been practiced throughout history. This book is a compilation of ancient and modern city plans, from 350 BCE onwards, depicting both built and proposed city plans.

In the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen US consul to Bermuda. This book compiles Allen's Civil War dispatches to the US State Department and provides a commentary to place his activities in the context of the ""Atlantic campaign"" of the Civil War.

First published in 1948, My Greatest Day in Football is a collection of reminiscences and stories from football's early stars. College football games were the most memorable moments for many of these players and coaches, though some highlight professional and even high school games.

A study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian, this book examines story of this lock system, including a look at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the terrain to found one of the first industrial centers in American Midwest. It contains a guide for Canalway hikers and bikers on the towpath through Akron's Cascade Locks Park.

Focuses on complex economic, political, and social realities facing historic preservation. This work provides an historic analysis of the profession, a summary of legal issues, an architectural synopsis, a discussion of career opportunities in the public and private sectors, and examples of innovative nonprofit leadership and preservation trends.

Economic ties with the United States were important to Colombia even in the early twentieth century, as the US was the major market for coffee, Colombia's source of revenue. Filling a gap in the literature on US relations with less developed countries, the author gives fresh research on the development of the US-Colombian alliance.

Created in 1972, the comic strip featuring Funky Winkerbean has evolved into a mature series of real-life stories. In 1999, Lisa Moore, one of Funky's friends, discovered she had breast cancer. This collection presents comic strips on Lisa's battle with cancer, examining her struggle with the disease and its outcome.

Assembles plays that demonstrate how theatrical form can open discussion linking medicine to the larger society. The author includes essays to each of the works as well as a general introduction that presents an overview of the issues discussed in the anthology, and their relevance to our culture, and their value in providing thematic material.

Early in his career, when ""To Have and Have Not"" was published, Ernest Hemingway's portrayal of themes, setting, and character was often compared to Cezanne's art - abstract. This title explores the importance of Hemingway's relationship to the waters of the Gulf Stream that transformed his imaginative work.

Clyde Singer was born in the small town of Malvern in 1908 and he grew up in the rural hills of Ohio. Educated in the local public schools, he had an early interest in art and, after high school attended the school at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. This is a study of the work of an Ohio artist.

A biography of the Ohio native and politician Martin L Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the early decades of the twentieth century, Davey served as mayor of Kent, Ohio, was elected to the US House of Representatives, and completed two terms as Ohio governor.

Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. This work offers revealing perspectives on how the exquisite language in the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering.

When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. She was identified as a Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell. This work features two accounts of her death, both fictional, and an introduction that places these accounts in a historical context.

Places the voices of women experiencing illness alongside analytical writing from prominent scholars in the field of narrative medicine. This work bridges the artificial divide between women's lives and scholarship in gender, health, and medicine. It draws the connection between women's suffering and advocacy for women's lives.

Examines the connections between American philosophy and literature. This title includes discussion of subjects ranging from Stephen Crane's metaphysics to business ethics in William Dean Howells, pragmatic religion in Willa Cather and Harold Frederic, John Steinbeck's philosophy of work, and Norman Maclean's philosophy of community.

Howard Metzenbaum, a poor Jewish kid from the inner city of Cleveland who fought his way to wealth and the United States Senate, became one of Ohio's dominant politicians in the second half of the twentieth century. This title tells his story - from his upset of John Glenn to his years as a powerful and outspoken member of the US Senate.

George Hunt Pendleton was a Democrat from Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the Ohio Senate for one term before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1857 until 1865. This work not only provides a microcosm of Democratic Party operations during Pendleton's lifetime but is also a case study in the longevity of Jacksonian principles.

Features lecturers chosen from among the best-known Civil War historians. This work offers readers an impressive array of topics, approaches, and perspectives. It features twelve essays that include lectures presented by Edward L Ayers, William Blair, David W Blight, Catherine Clinton, Gary W Gallagher, George Rable, John Y Simon, and Joan Waugh.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the steel industry was the major heavy industry in the US and the bellwether of regional economic might. And the remnants of the steel industry are rapidly disappearing. This work features photos that show this industry at its zenith, when it was the standard by which other industries were measured.

Built by Daniel R Hanna as a tribute to his theater-loving father, Marcus Hanna, the Hanna Theatre opened its doors on March 28, 1921, with an adaptation of Mark Twain's ""The Prince and the Pauper"" starring William Faversham. This is an history of Cleveland's showcase for touring shows.

An examination of Ernest Hemingway's working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, and with his editors there. This critical study of Hemingway's professional collaboration with Scribners also details the editing, promotion, and sales of the books he published with the firm from 1926 to 1952.

Sam Grimes is heartbroken by a law school romance gone bad. Searching for new horizons, he accepts a clerkship with a federal judge in Providence, Rhode Island. He finds himself both falling in love with a young woman he meets at the courthouse and working on the case of the decade in New England.