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In Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, poet Charif Shanahan explores the various ways in which we as a species inherit identity constructs, chiefly about race and sexuality, and how we navigate those constructs in the creation of our identities.

Despite the vast number of multilingual speakers in the United States and the pervasive influence of globalization, writing studies in the US is still inextricably linked to a nationalistic, monolingual English ideology. In Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy, Xiaoye You addresses this issue by proposing that writing studies programmes adopt a cosmopolitan perspective.

This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America's early celebrities. She claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy, but this book reveals a startling reality that's even more implausible than the myths she created.

Abraham Lincoln was a skilled politician, an inspirational leader, and a man of humor and pathos. Despite the most meager of formal educations, Lincoln's tremendous intellectual curiosity drove him into the circle of Enlightenment philosophy and democratic political ideology. This title looks into the mind of Abraham Lincoln.

In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her mother's sister, the lost aunts of her father in Gaza, and her Syrian grandmother.

This title takes its cue from Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, bringing a finely honed talent to classic poetic questions concerning music, the march of progress, and the relationship between reality and the imagination. Blending humour and pathos, Bruce Bond examines the absurdities of contemporary life and explores the various roles music and art play in the human experience.

Synthesizes three decades of scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical model for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humour, lying, or intention. Using irony as a form of ideological disruption, this innovative approach allows scholars to challenge simplistic narratives of who harmed, and who was harmed throughout rhetorical history.

This work reconstructs the settlement patterns of 33 immigrant groups in early-19th-century Illinois. It argues that mid-continental Illinois was a historical test-strip of the diverse diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration.

Jennifer Richter's penetrating second collection of poems, No Acute Distress, introduces us to the unspoken struggles and unanticipated epiphanies of illness and motherhood, subjects rarely explored together in contemporary poetry.

The poems of The Primitive Observatory, set roughly in the Gilded Age, take readers into a dreamy, alluring world where hapless travellers, doomed heirs, and other colourful types grapple with horrors. Fans of David Lynch, Franz Kafka, Edward Gorey and the like will be startled, excited, and pleased by this entertaining and disturbing book of poetry.

Recounts the bitter experiences of black men who were admitted to military service and the problems associated with the shifting status of African Americans during the Civil War. This book covers the roles played by Lincoln and Grant in beginning black soldiery and the sensitive issues that arose when black soldiers were captured by Confederates.

Provides a brief description and general history of flatboats and the various reasons they wrecked. Mark J. Wagner also describes the remains of a salvaged flatboat, how it was constructed, the artifacts found nearby and inside, and the probable cause of its sinking.

Donald Lazere issues a call to action for the return to an emphasis on critical thinking skills and multidisciplinary approaches in the teaching of composition and rhetoric. Lazere also presents a keen sociocultural observation regarding the majority of the "Middle Americans" demographic and their learning behaviours and needs.

In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration - what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations - through a polyphonic work, written in multiple voices.

In this succinct study, Jason H. Silverman investigates Abraham Lincoln's evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate.

Redefines the concept of ethos - classically thought of as character or credibility - as ecological and feminist, negotiated and renegotiated, and implicated in shifting power dynamics. Building on previous feminist and rhetorical scholarship, this essay collection presents a sustained discussion of the unique methods by which women's ethos is constructed and transformed.

Although the US changed dramatically between the presidential terms of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, these two leaders shared common interests and held remarkably similar opinions on important issues. In this volume, Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler describes the views of two of the US's greatest presidents and explains how these views provide valuable insight into modern-day debates.

Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty, contributors examine attempts to restrict freedom of speech and the press during and after the Civil War.

Most studies of modern chemical warfare begin with World War I. However, as Guy R. Hasegawa reveals in this fascinating study, numerous chemical agents were proposed during the Civil War era. As combat commenced, Hasegawa shows, a few forward thinking chemists recognised the advantages of weaponizing the noxious, sometimes deadly aspects of certain chemical concoctions.