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Carol Thomas offers two case studies: Jason and the voyage of the Argo, from the ""Age of Heroes,"" and Hesiod, probably the first literate European, who lived ca. 700 BCE. With these examples, Thomas shows that a combination of scientific tools and historically oriented scholarship can offer a larger context in which individual subjects lived.

Paul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), one of America's greatest 19th-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham's artistic achievements, he also portrays another and very important part of the artist's career - his service as a statesman and political leader in Missouri.

This book completes and complements the first volume of the letters and life of James Dickey. Picking up where the previous volume left off, it chronicles Dickey's career from the success of his novel "Deliverance" in 1970 until his death in 1997.

Spanning some 54 years, this is a look at the journals that William Barclay Napton (1808-1883), an editor, Missouri lawyer, and state Supreme Court judge, kept from his time as a student at Princeton to his death in Missouri.

These essays endeavor to generate a dialogue between Eric Voegelin and other 20th-century thinkers and explore issues in contemporary political theory. Each essay rests on the underlying question: is it possible or desirable to construct or discover political foundations without resorting to metaphysical or essentialist constructs?

This collection of essays devoted to the centrality of place in the short stories and novels of some of the twentieth century's most famous American writers was conceived as a way to honor the life and career of Walter Sullivan, an author for whom place was central both in his fiction and in his critical writing.

Focusing on social, economic, and political life, volume IV of History of Missouri provides an in-depth analysis of both rural Missouri and urban development during a time of rapid growth and change in the state.

Missouri's mineral springs and resorts played a vital role in the social and economic development of the state. Loring Bullard delves into the long history of these springs and spas, concentrating particularly on the use and development of the mineral springs from 1800 to about the 1930s.

Charlie Farmer, provides the reader with some tips for making the most of the four major outdoor nature activities that are available in Missouri. He also shares many of the fascinating adventures he has had during a lifetime of participating in his favorite pastimes.

Confronts what is considered the biggest issue of Truman historiography: the historical significance of Harry S. Truman's presidency. Exploring the subject from the point of view of Truman's Farewell Address of January 15, 1953, the book describes the preparation of the address itself and the negative view of his presidency that prevailed.

The United States in 1800 by Henry Adams is a compilation of the first six chapters of his magnum opus, ""History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison"". In this volume, Adams explains how personalities and events from this period shaped the main lines of American national development.

Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains a major figures in American political thought, many of his critics consider him merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., presents Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a ""proper mode of popular rule.

This second volume of Eric Voegelin's miscellaneous papers contains unpublished writings from the time of his forced emigration from Austria in 1938 until his death in 1985. The volume's focus is on dialogue and discussion, presenting Voegelin in the role of lecturer, discussant, and respondent.

Humorists from the Old Southwest: Crockett, Longstreet, Thompson, Baldwin, Thorpe, Hooper, Robb, Harris, and Lewis; formed a kind of shadow canon in American literature that led to Mark Twain's early work, from 1834 to 1867. James H. Justus's examines this writing in the context of other discourses contemporaneous with it.

The final volume of ""A History of Missouri"". Beginning at the close of the Truman presidency and ending in 2003, the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase agreement and of the organization of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Volume VI explains how modern Missouri bridged the years between the mid-twentieth century and the new millennium.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was a statesman and lawyer who embodied the golden age of oratory in America; mastering each of the major genres of public speaking of the time. This study examines Webster's career and how his great speeches and created a ""civil religion"" that moved citizens to true romantic patriotism.

Constance B. Schulz and Elizabeth Hayes Turner collect the stories of the women who helped to found and lead the Southern Association for Women Historians during its first twenty years. These women give evidence, in strong and effective language, of the experiences that shaped their entree into the profession.

Created as a companion for the fourth-grade textbook ""Missouri Then and Now"" by Perry McCandless and William E. Foley, this workbook provides students additional insight into Missouri's rich history with cognitive activities and writing assignments.

During World War I, William M. Wright is the only American divisional commander known to have kept a journal. This immensely important document includes accounts of the battles at St Mihiel and Meuse Argonne.

A collection of essays surveying the history of women in the state of Missouri from the period of colonial settlement through the mid-20th century.

Quince Duncan is a leading Costa Rican author. Martin-Ogunsola explores the issues of race, class and gender in five of his novels dating from the 1970s, employing the Eve/Hagar paradigm to examine how the essential characteristics of femininity play out in the context of ethnicity and caste.

An exploration of the contribution that the state of Missouri has made to American naval history, using the ships that were named after the state, the cities of Missouri and its citizens.

Last Stands presents people at crucial moments in their lives, the moments in which ultimate challenges are confronted, questions asked, and definitive judgments are made. These are stories that do not shun the darker side of Weaver's characters, but seek the illumination of the insights needed to make their lives meaningful, if only to themselves.

This is an overview and summary of the role W.E.B. Du Bois played in the struggle for equal rights for African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.

In this work, Nathan Grant begins his analysis of African American texts by focusing on the fragmentation of values of black masculinity as a result of slavery, postbellum disfranchisement, and the ensuing necessity to migrate from the agrarian South to the industrialized North.

In the thirteen stories of Pale Morning Dun, Richard Dokey endeavors to suggest common truths that uncover the human reality at any time, in any place. He explores the ephemeral nature of life through an assembly of characters as diverse as the settings they inhabit. The characters' struggles reveal universal truths about human nature

In 1947 John Hope Franklin, then a professor of history at North Caroline College for Negroes, wrote ""From Slavery to Freedom"". This volume focuses on this esteemed scholar's academic achievements, his humanitarian contributions and his extraordinary legacy

Michael J. Connolly seeks to understand the interrelationships among political change, economic interests and railroad development in northern New England prior to the Civil War. He analyses the political scene, from Whig to Democrat, and links this to attitudes to the railroads.

In this sequel to ""Few Returned"", Eugenio Corti continues his poignant account of his experiences as an Italian soldier in World War II. In 1943, after repeated military defeats, Mussolini was forced to resign and Italy joined the Allies. In this text, Corti recounts his experiences of those days.