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Early in the Civil War, two young brothers boldly flew the Union flag from a tree atop a hill between Makanda and Cobden. This was a towering act of courage in an area teeming with Copperheads.Theodore and Al Thompson, 18 and 20 years old at the time, raised the flag in defiance of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secessionist group that operated throughout the Midwest. Controlling its membership through terror, this secret society condemned betrayers to death by torture. The Knights, whose goals included capturing a Union prison and liberating the rebels, triggered the Civil War riot in Charleston, instigated anti-draft movements, and aided Northern deserters.Theodore Thompson, who later owned much of Makanda, Giant City, and the land that became Southern Illinois University describes the tree as a "tall tulip poplar between 3 and 4 feet in diameter at the trunk and some 60 feet to the first limbs. This noted tree could be seen in some directions 15 or 20 miles away."

The question of how students transfer knowledge is an important one, as it addresses the larger issue of the educational experience. In Agents of Integration, Rebecca S. Nowacek explores, through a series of case studies, the issue of transfer by asking what in an educational setting engages students to become "agents of integration".

In this bold new way of looking at dramatic structure, Jim Linnell establishes the central role of emotional experience in the conception, execution, and reception of plays. It examines dramatic texts through the lens of human behaviour to identify the joining of event and emotion in a narrative, defined by Linnell as emotional form.

By incorporating the foundational principles of both hand- and computer-drafting approaches throughout the entire book, the authors illustrate how to create clear and detailed drawings that advance the production process.

Poet Brian Barker attempts to make sense of some of the darkest chapters in history while peering forward to what lies ahead as the world totters in the wake of human complacence. Unveiled here are ruminations on human torture, the Chernobyl disaster, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and genocide against Native Americans.

Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres.

Tackles important and often controversial contemporary questions regarding the rhetoric of inquiry, the social construction of knowledge, and the professionalization of the academy. Susan Peck MacDonald argues that the academy has devoted more effort to analysing theory and method than to analysing its own texts.

In the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864, US Major General Philip H Sheridan led his army to a series of decisive victories for the Union over Lieutenant General Jubal A Early and the Confederate Army of the Valley. This title highlights Sheridan's victories in the critical area of the Virginia Valley as defining moments of the Civil War.

Presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term threshold. This title includes gripping lyric and prose poems that explore duality in its many forms: the private, contemplative world versus a world of action; the mirror sides of health and sickness; and, the warmth of a June sun and the deep, long nights of winter.

The Hanlons - a family of six brothers from Manchester, England - were one of the world's premiere performing troupes in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet their legacy has been mostly forgotten. This book documents the careers of this talented family and enumerates their many contributions to modern popular entertainment.

Explores Gertrude Buck's, a pioneering English professor and theorist at Vassar College, contribution to the fields of education and rhetoric in the Progressive Era. This book offers a scholarly treatment of Buck's achievements that elucidates the historical and contemporary impact of her work and life.

A collection of poems that examines the enduring themes of time, mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film. It celebrates the flickering tales of madness and adventure, drama and love, which are all too often left to decay within forgotten vaults.

Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded. In the first book in his new series, Steven E. Woodworth has brought together a group of superb historians to reassess this significant battle and provide in-depth analyses of key aspects of the campaign and its aftermath. The eight contributors dissect the campaign's fundamental events.

George H Ryan, Illinois governor from 1999 to 2003, became nationally known for two significant and very different reasons. The first governor in the United States to clear out his state's death row and put a moratorium on the death penalty, he was also convicted and sent to prison on corruption charges. This book details the career of the man.

This cumulative index to the thirty-seven volumes of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, is an invaluable guide to The Collected Works. The Collected Works Contents incorporates all the tables of contents of Dewey's individual volumes. The Title Index lists alphabetically by shortened titles and by key words all items in The Collected Works.

Gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This book traces the development of African love poetry from antiquity to modernity while establishing a cross-millennial dialog. It bears testimony to poetry's role as conciliator while opening up a fresh area of study for scholars and students.

Provides an historically informed critical analysis of the concept and politics of information. Analysing texts in Europe and the United States, Ronald E. Day's critical reading method goes beyond traditional historiographical readings of communication and information by engaging specific historical texts in terms of their attempts to construct and reshape history.

Calls for instructors of first-year writing courses to employ primary scientific discourse in their teaching and for rhetoricians of science to think about teaching scientific discourse as a literacy skill. This book provides an analysis of science popularizations and demonstrates how these works can be used to contextualize scientific research.

From the time of Abraham Lincoln's nomination for the presidency until his assassination, John G Nicolay served as the Civil War president's chief personal secretary. This title compiles Nicolay's memoranda, journal entries describing Lincoln's activities, and excerpts from most of the nearly three hundred letters Nicolay wrote to his fiancee.

This collection of plays, fiction, and journalistic essays provides a portrait of one of America's most innovative yet neglected feminists. It is a critical compilation of Sophie Treadwell's prose and drama and highlights her most significant works. It also outlines the personal and social factors that helped shape her feminist ideals.

Pursuing the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre, this book demonstrates Broadway's ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in soceity - from economic and political anxiety surrounding WWII to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the ""me"" generation.

In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching, Roxanne Mountford explores the relationship between bodies, space, race and gender in the rhetorical performance and American Protestant culture. She examines the strategies of three contemporary women preachers.

Charting the origins of serious theatre, drama pedagogy, and the nonprofit model, this illustrated volume argues that the Little Theatre movement was a national phenomenon, not just the result of aspirants copying the efforts of the much-storied Provincetown Players, Washington Square Players, Neighborhood Playhouse, and Chicago Little Theatre.

In his fifth collection of poetry, Greg Pape melds images from the natural world with ordinary experience to capture small transformations of human character in American settings from Arizona's Sonora Desert to the streets of Washington DC. He offers poems that bridge the spaces between the past and the present, and men and women.