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Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States argues for an alternative understanding of rhetorical traditions. The volume includes a bibliography of works related to literacy instruction at all levels of education in the US during the nineteenth century.

In her first collection of poems, Kansas native Amy Fleury captures images of dragging clotheslines, baked lawns, and sweet potato babies, inserting them with an earnest dignity into her stories of midwestern life.

This 25th anniversary edition restores to print Charles Einstein's biography of one of baseball's legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid's career - from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973 - and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others.

'Multiliteracies for a Digital Age' serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies. Stuart A. Selber also proposes methods for helping students move among these literacies in strategic ways.

Exposing the poor working conditions of contingent composition faculty, these essays explore practical alternatives to the unfair labour practices that are all too common on campuses today. They consider the nature, extent and economics of the managed labour problem in composition instruction.

Catherine Prendergast draws on various insights from legal studies and literacy studies to interrogate contemporary multicultural literacy initiatives, providing a historical basis that informs debates over affirmative action, school vouchers, reparations and high-stakes standardized testing.

Having emerged from presentations given at the national Writing Program Administrators' Conference, in 2001, this collection of 24 essays assesses and challenges the current state of writing instruction, charting new directions and approaching composition studies from different perspectives.

Taking an innovative approach to the postmodern dilemma in rhetoric and composition, this study offers a positive and modern pedagogy that redefines and revalues writing and the teaching of writing through reconstructive, postmodern thought.

This is a book of poems with a homing instinct: Elton Glaser travels a restless circuit between his native Louisiana and his adopted home of Ohio. These reflections are extracted from the origins and ends of the poet's life.

Pressured in 1875 to declare himself for or against a third term as president, Ulysses S. Grant found it equally difficult to decide what he wanted and to explain himself to the nation. This text is the 26th in a series of papers written by the 18th president of the United States.

The personal diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, ex-soldiers and the thriving merchant class.

This work is a detailed and anecdotal report of life and politics in Chicago's old 32nd Ward. It details Rostenkowski's crimes and leaves no doubt that many serious misdeeds were at stake.

Carol Mattingly examines the importance of dress and appearance for 19th-century women speakers and explores how women appropriated gendered conceptions of dress and apppearance to define the struggle for representation and power that is rhetoric.

Drawing on the theoretical work of Jacques Lacan, the author of this text formulates a systematic explanation of the function and value of desire in writing instruction. He explains how discourse is rooted in primitive psychological functions of desire and responds to complex cultural needs.

This is a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture.

This work is a sequel and tells John Logan's postwar story. It covers topics such as reconstruction, regional and national Republican party politics, military policies, developing tariff policies, and the 1884 presidential race.

In this text, each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G.K. Chesterton: ""One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it."" The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future.

Inaugurated for a second term on March 4, 1873, Ulysses S. Grant gave an address that was both inspiring and curiously bitter. Grant's lingering anger at his opponents in the 1872 campaign, despite his rather easy victory, reflected his discomfort with politics. Nor had he grown to love his office.

A history of the American Civil Liberties Union. It recounts the ACLU's stormy history since its founding in 1920 to fight for free speech and explores its involvement in some of the most famous causes in American history, including the Scopes ""monkey trial"" and the civil rights movement.

This is a history of school-based writing instruction, with the author aiming to demonstrate that writing instruction in 19th-century American schools is more important than previously assumed.

In "re-reading" the sophists of fifth-century Greece, Susan C. Jarratt reinterprets classical rhetoric, with implications for current theory and composition.

This edition of the history of Germany includes the great watershed of 1989-90 and its aftermath. With 12 maps, a chronology of events and an updated bibliographical essay, it provides a thorough introduction to German history from antiquity to the present.

This study offers an analysis of the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of 19th-century black women. The author develops each chapter around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era.

This text explores the Beat Generation, its intersections with film, and interactions with society and 1950s culture. It balances the rebellion through creativity and behaviour against the values of conformity, conservatism, worry over cold-war hostilities, and the ""rat race"" to material success.

This work contextualizes, and follows the migration of women's rhetorical accomplishments systematically. To locate these women, it follows the migration of the Western intellectual tradition from its inception and its ultimate appropriation by Christianity into the Church and politics.

This text explores the role of dialogue in creating a constructive teacher-student relationship.

This text is a nostalgic, sometimes romantic, social history about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois around 1800-1880s. After Cole's death, his notes and illustrations where turned into a book by historian Kellogg and published in 1930.

Explores the relationship between scientific "conviction" and public policy. John S. Haller focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, health, and the physiognomy of non-white races.