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Drawing on 4 decades of ""New York Times"" editorials, this book demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread across the continent in the post-Civil War period. It provides perspectives on the public images of Natives and their place in a nation bent on expansion.

Documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Here, crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems.

Collects nine insightful essays on the topic of the sixteenth president. This book addresses Lincoln's leadership abilities during the span of his career, with particular emphasis on the Civil War. It compares the qualities of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.

Presents a reinvention with multiwriting, an alternative, open approach to composing that spans genres, media, disciplines, and cultures. This book illustrates how multiwriting supports freedom, innovation, and connection of content and form. It includes sixteen helpful illustrations and provides classroom exercises and projects for each chapter.

Setting forth an innovative model for what it means to be a writing teacher in the era of writing across the curriculum, this work urges a reconceptualization of graduate work in rhetoric and composition, systematically critiques the limitations of current pedagogical practices at the postsecondary level.

Explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors.

Identifies the problems inherent in trying to understand rural literacy, addresses the lack of substantive research on literacy in rural areas, and reviews traditional misrepresentations of rural literacy. This volume frames debates over literacy in relation to larger social, political, and economic forces.

Because box office income rarely covers the cost of production, other sources are vital. Angels - financial investors and backers - have a tremendous impact on what happens on stage. This book explores not only how donors became angels, but also their backgrounds, motivations, policies, limitations, support, and successes and failures.

Examines Henry Horner's (Illinois' first Jewish governor) management of the political and economic challenges of the state when millions of Americans were jobless and hungry. This work shows how Horner, stemmed foreclosures, dealt with bank closings, soothed massive labor unrest, fed the hungry, and confronted the threat of revolution.

Investigates the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Exploring the origins of that rhetoric, this work reveals how the ideology of black nationalism functions in contemporary African American political discourse.

While the American nation has much to be proud of, former senator Paul Simon argues that there is danger in the temptation to ignore the far-reaching repercussions of a society that caters to money and power. He advocates genuine leadership in politics, media, religion and education.

Susan Hurley Harrison disappeared from upscale Ruxton, Maryland, on August 5, 1994. Her body was discovered in the woods of northern Maryland two years later and her death was ruled a homicide. This work talks about a woman's search for her sister and details the helplessness experienced by families of missing persons.

Examines the transition of Mexican Americans from political and social marginalization to civic inclusion after World War II. This book focuses on the public rhetoric of veteran rights activist and physician Dr Hector P Garcia, a Mexican immigrant who achieved unprecedented influence within the US political system.

Contains poems that explore the everyday mysteries of our common experience with humor, lucidity, and an unblinking yet compassionate eye.

Presents a collection of poems that offers commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. These poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter, Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight.

Offers a look into the Civil War through the eyes of a child and also a coming-of-age story. This volume presents an introduction and annotations that explain how the war was glorified over time, the harsh realities suppressed in the nation's collective memory. It describes a man who nostalgically remembers the boy he once was.

On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke.

Contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896-1983).

A study of freedom of expression rights in electronic media from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, covering the evolution of free speech rights in early radio. It draws on primary sources from 16 archives plus contemporary secondary sources, analyzing interactions among the players involved.

Offers a glimpse into the private life of Abraham Lincoln and the first family. Showcasing original and unpublished photographs collected and preserved by Mary Todd Lincoln and four generations of descendants, this volume includes pictures displayed in a family album when the Lincolns lived in the White House.

Demonstrates that the essays and letters written for the ""Providence"" Journal, the ""Springfield Illinois State"" Journal, and the ""St Louis Missouri Democrat"" under the pseudonym ""Ecarte"" are the work of Hay. This work shows circumstantial evidence that Hay wrote as ""our special correspondent"" for the ""Washington World.

John Hay believed that ""real history is told in private letters,"" and the more than 220 surviving letters and telegrams from his Civil War days prove that to be true. Along with Hay's personal correspondence, this work includes his surviving official letters. It also includes some of the letters Hay composed for Lincoln's signature.

Examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. This book explains the causes of the accidents, identifies who was to blame, and details the emotional impact the disasters had on the survivors, their families, and their communities.

Presents the results of John Dewey's construction of the radically fresh view of the methods and concerns of philosophical inquiry. This book provides readers with an overview of the scope and direction of his philosophical vision. The order of the eleven essays is a reverse chronology, with the later essays appearing first.

A critical edition of John Dewey's 1916 collection of writings on logic, this title presents Dewey's concept of logic as the theory of inquiry and his innovative development of the relationship of inquiry to experience. It includes texts from the ""Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953"" as well as articles from leading journals.

Explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics.

This new edition of the first volume in the multi-volume series of The Illustrated Flora of Illinois - which provides a working reference for the identification and classification of these plant forms in the state - includes flowering rushes, arrowheads, pondweeds, naiads, duckweeds, cattails, bur reeds, spiderworts, and rushes.

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln received many letters that expressed the concerns, aspirations, and obsessions of the nation. This collection includes correspondence from ordinary Americans requesting autographs and favours, as well as pleas from the influential. It portrays a president eager to respond to the advice and criticism.

As president, Abraham Lincoln received correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military leaders, as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races. This book includes letters written by African Americans, which Lincoln never saw, offering a different representation of the nation's mood.