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The final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. Jeffrey Berman describes ways in which teachers can encourage college students to write safely on a wide range of subjects deemed too personal or dangerous for the classroom.

This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings together a wide range of his writings on bibliography, the book trade and the ""sociology of texts"".

In the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie - of her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. This work shows how cooking evolved during the 20th century as new challenges arose to replace the old.

Alone among important American writers, Ambrose Bierce fought for four years in the Civil War. The writings he produced about that conflict comprise a body of work unique in American literature. This volume gathers virtually everything Bierce wrote about the war.

A collection of primary source materials and original essays, ""Perspectives on American Book History"" is designed for the growing number of courses in American print culture, as well as a supplement for courses in American literature and history.

The Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples in the colonial period. This study focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions - the role played by Indian women who married French traders.

In this collection of poems, the grainy strangeness of the modern world is transformed into a place at once knowable and enduring. The author conveys the certainty that even when the world stops making sense, decency and beauty somehow survive.

This personal memoir tells the story of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a nurse. The story plunges the reader into the bloodiest aspects of the war itself, then continues after the end of the war as the author attempts to regain the love of her family.

An exploration of why women were singled out as witches in 15th-century in Germany. It examines the connections between three central developments at this time: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and the witch hunts that were sweeping across Europe.

This text is a study of Paul Revere - an ambitious young artisan who ultimately achieved the status of the gentleman he had long admired and ardently desired to emulate.

An account of the intense, shifting friendship between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harmon Smith emphasizes their personal bond, but also shows how the relationship affected their thought and writing, and was in turn influenced by their careers.

The author of this work surveys the shifting boundaries between the personal, public, and professional uses of the past and explores their place in the broader cultural landscape. Each chapter investigates a specific encounter between Americans and their history.

This biography of Betty Friedan traces the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Illinois to her marriage. Horowitz offers a reading of ""The Feminine Mystique"" and argues that the roots of Friedan's feminism run deeper than she has led us to believe.

A gifted and charismatic entertainer, Josh White (1914-1969) was one of the best-known folk-blues artists of his day. In this biography, Elijah Wald traces White's journey from the ""coloured"" side of Greenville, South Carolina, to the heights of Manhattan cafe society.

Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan, playing off the notion of the ""hart"" walls erected to corral deer for a mediaeval hunt, and evoking the physiology of the heart itself, these poems explore the possibilities for love and feeling in a world besieged by tragedies.

This study examines the roots of the distinctive form of writing known as journalism - whether called literary journalism or creative non-fiction - and argues that within America it can be traced at least as far back as the late-19th century.

Blending autobiography and history, James Green reflects on 30 years as an activist, educator and historian. He recounts how he became immersed in political process and in recovering and preserving the history of progressive social movements, demonstrating how the two are linked.

Frederic Jameson described Vietnam as ""the first terrible postmodernist war"". Ranging across various disciplines, including philosophy, cultural studies and literary criticism, this collection of essays explores the war's discourses and technologies in relation to the postmodernist condition.

This text looks at the 1675 war between the English colonists and the indigenous people of New England, which decimated the region's native population. The author examines the causes of the conflict, and its effects on the relationship between the two cultures.

A true tale of illicit love in the era of Emily Dickinson. The author adds her own annotations to correspondence, journals, diaries and the observations of the protagonists' peers, to paint a detailed picture of social and sexual mores in 19th-century America.

Perhaps best-known for ""Broadside"", a magazine founded in 1962, Agnes ""Sis"" Cunningham and Gordon Friesen are radicals on the American left. This is the story of the two dedicated social activists, offering an account of their personal and political odyssey.

A study of industrialization in the antebellum New England countryside. More specifically, this book is an investigation of pre-Civil War industrialization in two contiguous south-central Massachusetts townships, Dudley and Oxford, and in a third community, Webster, which was carved from them in 1832.

The letters featured in this book were sent by Corporal James Henry Gooding, a member of Company C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. They were sent to the New Bedford (Massachusetts) ""Mercury"" and published. He was described as a ""truthful and intelligent correspondent, and a good soldier"".

A study in intellectual history and the history of the book, this work examines the humanist movement in 16th-century England and traces the reception of a single work, Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"" (1516), in relation to that movement.

A wide-ranging appraisal of the legacy of progressivism. The essays, written by a group of political scientists and historians, explore the impact of progressivism on domestic as well as foreign affairs, and on the theory as well as practice of American government and politics.

This text reconstructs the murder of Amasa Sprague in 1843, the social and economic background of the crime, and the subsequent trials. In doing so, the book reveals the politics of prejudice in 19th-century New England as played out in the community and courtroom.

A study of 19th-century tourism and its role in shaping American culture, this text gives an analysis of the contribution of certain tourist spots to America's cultural awareness.

This volume analysis the three letters written by Emily Dickinson, addressed to a man she called "Master". They are presented in chronological order, including transcriptions that show stages in the composition of each letter, and placed in historical perspective.

This work chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, the doctor whose publicized exploits in Vietnam and Laos during the 1950s, helped lay the ideological groundwork for the US military intervention a decade later. A deeply religious Roman Catholic, Dooley was a playboy socialite, yet devoted to the poor.

Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers and composers still chose to publish their work in handwritten form. This text considers the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to printed books and examines those that met the need for rapid duplication of key texts.