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Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that ""physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition"". In this text, contributors attempt to prove this assertion through their prose on a diverse range of topics.

From his start as a West Point graduate, class of 1848, to his retirement as a brigadier general more than 40 years later, John C. Tidball saw much that shaped the United States and its army. This text tells the man's story.

This text, using a ""counter-factual"" account of the 1864 campaigns in Virginia, presents a view of the American Civil War from the West - moving the narrow confines of the Old Dominion to the vast Trans-Appalachian region - and gives the reader an understanding of how and why the war ended.

Grace Goulder Izant spent the last six decades of her long and productive life in Hudson, Ohio, and this, her final book, was the one that lay closest to her heart. Bringing to it her knowledge as a historian of Ohio, she lifts the story beyond the limitations of local history and makes it illuminate an entire region and time. Illustrated with numerous historical photographs and drawings from her private collection, this edition preserves the enduring quality and historical heritage of this quaint village.

James Monroe served as the centre of abolition and reform in the American West when he attended Oberlin College, Ohio, in the 19th century. This book explores the abolitionist politician's years at Oberlin during the antebellum period, as well as all his travels.

After the last Ice Age, the southern Lake Erie basin and the Ohio valley were characterized by biotic zones that influenced cultural development of archaic Native American populations. This text looks at the transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to the rise of food production in this area.

This is a biography of Forbes Watson, art commentator for the ""New York Evening Post"" and ""New York World"" but probably best known as the editor of ""The Arts"", an influential art magazine of the 1920s.

Three themes are examined in this text: the social dynamics of race relations in Union Army camps, the relationship that evolved between Southern and Northern black soldiers, and the role off-duty activities played to help soldiers meet the demands of military service and the challenges of freedom.

This work takes the reader from Cleveland's first professional theatrical presentation in 1820, through the heyday of Vaudeville, to the grand reopening of the newly renovated Allen Theatre in 1999 and the return of touring Broadway shows to Cleveland.

In this text, Eric Wittenborg presents many of the writings of newspaperman James Harvey Kidd. Kidd wrote about his Civil War experiences, especially of his services with Custer.

In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea narrowly escaped being overrun by Chinese Communist forces, due to the military expertise of General Oliver Prince Smith. Using the general's own notes and diaries, this book describes Smith's distinguished career, in both Korea and elsewhere.

C.S. Lewis is best known as the creator of the fanciful world of Narnia and writer of literary criticism and Christian apologetics. This book examines Lewis's early writings, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton, analyzing the influence of his formative poetic aspirations upon his later prose.

In this second edition of the text, Sherrod Brown updates his insider's view of the workings of the American Congress with lively discussions of the Clinton impeachment, and the ""Battle in Seattle"" over the 1999 World Trade Organization conference.

In this vigorously-argued interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorhip, Clare Spark explores the complexities of 20th-century American cultural politics through the protagonists of the Melville Revival.

Primarily known for his postwar exploits, most famously for his 1876 defeat at Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer led a formidable cavalry that became known as ""Custer's Wolverines"". This volume presents the Civil War letters of one of those ""Wolverines"", James H. Kidd.

In this illustrated text, Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry during World War II, pointing out that women were not new to these factories and had been balancing their home lives with working, well before the demands of the War affected them.

Examining the evolution of US institutions of learning, from one-room schools to vast campuses, this text seeks to remind readers of this heritage through an examination of the philosophies behind the architectural styles of Ohio's schools and colleges, libraries and opera houses.

In this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes. It contains entire texts of ""Battle-Pieces"", ""John Marr and Other Sailors"" and ""Timeoleon"". Selected cantos from ""Clarel"" are reprinted with accompanying notes and commentary.

Jacob Jennings Brown was one of the most successful generals of his era, and his military reforms were still in operation in the 20th century. This text presents a study of his career, focusing on his involvement in the creation of a professional army and the establishment of a command structure.

This is the companion text to ""The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology"". It examines the issues of ""abnormalities"" in mental health, intelligence, and sexual behaviour. Both books are comprised of literary and fictional readings and commentary by health care professionals and medical ethicists.

This volume features both sides of a correspondence between an ""old Army"" officer and his socially prominent wife, one that reflects both their private lives and many of the public events of the times and that interweaves their responses to each other's experiences.

This work examines the founding and development of Worthington, Ohio to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the Western frontier. It provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement.

Basing its account on a close study of archive material from the UK, France and the US, this book offers a detailed examination of the 1918 armistice process. It also assesses the work of the leading figures and the the generals, admirals and diplomatic advisors who played supporting roles.

Charles Arthur Floyd was involved in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot him down in Ohio on October 22, 1934. This volume gives a detailed account of his life, crimes and death, making extensive use of FBI reports, and government records.

This is a compilation of the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. It does not analyze the effects of an individual's medical problems on a battle or the war, but provides information about factors that may have contributed to the wound, injury, or illness, and the outcome.

Born in 1911 to unconventional parents, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. This book portrays Margaret's life as the wife of noted paleontologist Edwin (Ned) Colbert, the mother of her five sons, and her later life as a respected artist.

A sympathetic assessment of Major General John Alexander McClernand, a highly controversial individual who served his country as soldier and statesman. It sheds light on the Union command systems and the politics of war, as well as the personalities and relationships among senior officers.

Under the leadership of Commodore Alexander Gillon, a prominent Charleston merchant, the South Carolina navy secured the services of the largest warship under any American's command during the American Revolution, the frigate South Carolina. This study examines its design and achievements.

Youngstown, Ohio, was often referred to as the ""Rust Belt"" because of its role in steel production. This volume contains photographs capturing the decaying traces of the industrial landscape amid the magnificence and magic of nature.