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This collection of personal and autobiographical poems is written by Helga Sandburg, daughter of the poet, Carl Sandburg. It contains a quartet of poems written after the death of her husband, as well as work inspired by the themes of motherhood, music, nature, and travel.

An analysis of the political economy, social development and history of Cleveland from 1796 to the present. As one of the oldest communities in the United States, the author looks at it as a model of transformation for other industrial cities.

Based on the belief that sermons can reflect the values and feelings of their times, this analysis of more than 300 sermons delivered in a seven-week period following Lincoln's assassination on 16th April 1865 shows how people sought comfort and guidance, and a perspective concerning the death.

Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864. In particular, the book focuses on the short but destructive campaign of General Nathaniel Banks on the Red River.

Addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the history of anthropology and its importance for contemporary issues. Drawing on his own research, Strathern advances the call for holistic models of human behaviour which reconceptualise the relationship between body and mind.

The 'Danse Macabre' of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in an illuminated late-medieval manuscript. This book contains reproductions of each manuscript folio, a translation and explanatory chapters by Ann Tukey Harrison. Art historian Sandra L. Hindman also contributes a chapter.

This companion volume to ""Ohio's Western Reserve"" presents writings associated with northeast Ohio. It represents the variety of literary genre and ethnic and economic pluralism of the region over a 180-year period.

The Battle of Gettysburg is seen by many as the turning point of the American Civil War. This work examines several controversial aspects of leadership on the opening day, including Lee's strategy and tactics and the conduct of Confederate corps commanders Richard S. Ewell and A.P. Hill.

Documents and explains the varied settlement and subsistence practices found in the prehistoric mid-Ohio Valley during the Woodland Period (ca 1000 BC - AD 1000). It focuses on settlement and subsistence relationships underlying the prehistoric societies of the region.

The Peace Corps was established in 1961 by the Kennedy administration, with the primary goal to help Third World countries while guarding against the expansion of communism. This study analyzes the programme and the performance of its volunteers in Cameroon during the 1960s.

Dillard has become a representative of a neoromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist considers her as wilderness philosopher, critic, and arch-romantic.

Major Henry Livermore Abbott of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was the most widely known and highly respected officer of his rank to serve in the Army of the Potomac. This text contains a collection of his wartime letters to family and friends.

A study of the role of the harp in Latin American music, this work explores the history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America and describes its modern roles various countries. It then turns its focus to the Quichus culture of northern highland Ecuador.

The author made use of recently available collections of personal letters and documents of Progressive reformer Raymond Robins in the papers of his sister, Elizabeth Robins, at the Fales Library of New York University to develop this complete analysis of Robins and his work.

Focusing on the quality of the poetry of the writer Charles Williams, this book also pays attention to the religious content of his works. The author places the poetry in the context of the multi-faceted forms of recurring myths and legends that so influenced Williams as a poet.

A history of the struggle in both the church and the state over the issue of slavery and the roles they played in events leading to the Civil War. The author chronicles the domestic missions in Calvinist churches in the antebellum period, linking free-soil concepts with post-millenialist thought.

Henry S. White, a chaplain attached to the Fifth Rhode Island heavy Artillery, was captured in May 1864 and remained a prisoner of war until the following September. After his release he wrote a series of letters to Zion's Herald, a New England Methodist newspaper, in which he described in vivid detail his capture and transportation to Andersonville and then to the officers' prison in Macon. The letters reveal White's eye for detail and his keen interest in the state of affairs in the south. He drew pointed comparisons between the officers and men of the two armies, and recounted the terrible lot of the prisoner of war. "As a chaplain White was spared the worst horrors of Confederate prison life, but his experiences in Rebel custody...were harrowing enough. Teen-aged sentries gleefully shot prisoners on the slightest provocation, or none at all, as the quickest way to earn a promotion. Half-naked men driven insane by hunger, lack of shelter, and atrocious sanitary conditions pleaded with guards to put them out of their misery. White spent only a day at Andersonville, yet his description of that earthly hell is thorough, concise, and very chilling."--American Heritage

This illustrated guide to the architecture of Oberlin, Ohio, mixes the remarkable social history of college and town with architectural commentary about one hundred thirty-two buildings built between 1837 and 1977. The result is a unique record of the ways in which the people of one Midwestern college town organized and housed their lives over the past one hundred fifty years, from the layout of the village square in 1833 to distinguished samples from the work of such twentieth-century architects as Cass Gilbert, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Harrison, Minoru Yamasaki, Hugh Stubbins and Robert Venturi. Owing to the plain and austere atmosphere of early Oberlin, much of the village architecture can be appreciated only through a knowledge of the peculiar local past. In contrast, the college campus offers a vivid record of architectural eclecticism from the 1880s to the present. This guide to town and college explains the distinction of both. The author, a historian on the faculty of Oberlin College, launched his research for this book fifteen years ago. It is based on primary evidence drawn from local archives, courthouse records, and the testimony of the buildings themselves.