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The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River. The state and Missouri River are namesakes of these historic Indians, but little of the tribe's history is known today. Michael Dickey tells the story of these indigenous Americans in The People of the River's Mouth.

The first modern book devoted exclusively to the history of colonial St. Louis, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil illuminates how its people loved, fought, worshipped, and traded. Covering the years from the settlement's 1764 founding to its 1804 absorption into the young United States, this study reflects on the experiences of the village's many inhabitants.

Presents a case study in the foundations of state governments. The book provides a sweeping look at the constitutional foundations of the processes of Missouri government. Authors Richard Fulton and Jerry Brekke place Missouri within the context of America's larger federal system while using the state's constitution as a touchstone for the discussion of each element of state government.

Presents an on-the-ground view of local institution building and community organizing campaigns initiated by African American social welfare reformers. The author places African American social welfare reform efforts within the vanguard of interwar community and neighbourhood organisation, reaching beyond the "racial uplift" and "behavior" models of preceding studies.

In the 1800s, American women were largely restricted to the private sphere. Even as the women's movement came along midcentury, it focused on gaining legal and political rights rather than career opportunities. So it is remarkable that three sisters born in the 1850s, the Owen daughters of Missouri, all achieved success in their careers. This volume tells the story of these exceptional sisters.

Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces students and practitioners to important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to Ayn Rand, and John Stuart Mill to the Dalai Lama.

Before Mark Twain became a national celebrity with his ""The Innocents Abroad"", he was just another struggling writer perfecting his craft. Plumbing Mark Twain's cultural significance, this title compares the performative aspects of Samuel Clemens' early work to the role of ritual clowns in traditional societies.

Major John Henshaw, a dutiful regimental officer in the American invasion of Mexico, was one of only a handful of eyewitnesses to describe the two major theaters of that war from start to finish. This book presents Henshaw's recollections, covering various actions from the first skirmish in southern Texas to the collapse of Mexico City.

As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life, Tocqueville's nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping America is largely overlooked today. Now, in Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Ellis Sandoz reveals the major role that Protestant Christianity played in the formation and early period of the American republic. Sandoz traces the rise of republican government from key sources in Protestant civilization, paying particular attention to the influence of the Bible on the Founders and the blossoming of the American mind in the eighteenth century. Sandoz analyzes the religious debt of the emergent American community and its elevation of the individual person as unique in the eyes of the Creator. He shows that the true distinction of American republicanism lies in its grounding of human dignity in spiritual individualism and an understanding of man's capacity for self-government under providential guidance. Along the way, he addresses such topics as the neglected question of the education of the Founders for their unique endeavor, common law constitutionalism, the place of Latin and Greek classics in the Founders' thought, and the texture of religious experience from the Great Awakening to the Declaration of IndependenceTo establish a unifying theoretical perspective for his study, Sandoz considers the philosophical underpinnings of religion and the contribution that Eric Voegelin made to our understanding of religious experience. He contributes fresh studies of the character of Voegelin's thought: its relationship to Christianity; his debate with Leo Strauss over reason, revelation, and the meaning of philosophy; and the theory of Gnosticism as basic to radical modernity. He also provides a powerful account of the spirit of Voegelin's later writings, contrasting the political scientist with the meditative spiritualist and offering new insight into volume 5 of Order and History. Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America concludes with timely reflections on the epoch now unfolding in the shadow of Islamic jihadism. Bringing a wide range of materials into a single volume, it confronts current academic concerns with religion while offering new insight into the construction of the American polity--and the heart of Americanism as we know it today.

Features letters written by Eric Voegelin which covers the period from 1950 through 1984. These letters provide evidence of the intellectual vigor that characterized his work throughout his life and continued virtually undiminished until the last weeks before his death. This biography focuses on one of the profound thinkers of the 20th century.

Sagebrush School is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century, its most illustrious representative being Mark Twain. This book contains 67 selections representing outstanding work by accomplished Sagebrushers Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett.

Famous for its insight into a young, inexperienced soldier's psychology, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" has long been assumed to have been based on little more than magazine articles and veterans' reminiscences. In this book, the author draws on more than three decades of teaching the novel to plumb the historical realities that actually shaped it.

Sagebrush School is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century, its most illustrious representative being Mark Twain. This book contains 67 selections representing outstanding work by accomplished Sagebrushers Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett.

Focusing on works by Jack London, Frank Norris, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen, the author argues that primitive literary characters are more than just memorable. She explores how the working class and racial and ethnic minorities came to occupy the position of ""primitives"".

Provides an analysis of works on the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Thirteen young women, who, after the Spanish Civil War ended with the Nationalists' victory, were executed. One of the fearless women had said, ""Do not allow my name to vanish in history."" This is the author's attempt to respond to her last request.

Michener Award-winning author Laurie Alberts' memoir provides a glimpse into the lives of ordinary Russians during the last years of the Soviet empire, while also portraying the difficulties of American/Soviet relations on the most personal of levels - the ways in which Cold War politics warped human connections.

The essays in this collection honor Professor Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and founding director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, an institute at Louisiana State University devoted to research and publication in the fields of political philosophy and constitutionalism.

Covering a period from the late colonial age to World War I and beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of the American South in an international light by establishing useful comparisons with the larger Atlantic and world economy.

Arrow Rock, so named because Native Americans once went there to shape their arrowheads from the flint found along the Missouri River, is a small historic village. Today fewer than one hundred people call Arrow Rock home, but its scenic location and rich history continue to attract thousands of visitors every year.In June 1804, the Corps of Discovery passed "the big arrow rock," as William Clark noted in his journal, "a handsome spot for a town . . . the situation is elegant, commanding and healthy, the land about it fine, well-timbered and watered." Settlers soon arrived, some bringing slaves who developed the large farms; the village that was established grew slowly but saw profits from trade on the river. The beginnings of trade in the far west, the gold rush, and the Civil War all had profound effects on the settlers.Meanwhile, area residents were having an effect on the world. George Caleb Bingham, who became known as the "Missouri artist," participated in the founding of the town and built a home there, and Dr. John Sappington, an early resident of Arrow Rock, saved thousands of lives by perfecting a treatment for malaria. Also calling Arrow Rock home were numerous influential politicians, including three governors, M. M. Marmaduke, Claiborne Fox Jackson, and John Sappington Marmaduke.Life changed after the Civil War, and Arrow Rock changed, too. As railroads and major highways bypassed the town, many people moved away and fewer came through. Arrow Rock provides insight into the progression of history and its effects on one small Missouri town. The story of this village, now a historic site, brings to life the history of America: early days of settlement, an era of prosperity and power for some and incredible hardship for others, wars, a decline, and a rebirth. In addition, the long roll call of those who visited the area provides a history of the opening of the West.This book will prove valuable to those interested in Missouri history; the developing nation; and the geographical, political, and recreational forces that were at work as so many came and went. Like a visit to Arrow Rock itself, this book allows readers to step back into history and appreciate a time when the river was the highway.

In 1911, when Bradley Hogg began his major-league pitching career for the National League's Boston Rustlers, baseball was a different game. Clyde Hogg details the life of baseball's everyman, including excerpts from newspapers throughout the country to bring to life the times in which Bradley Hogg played.

As a companion volume to their earlier book, ""Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History"", Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson's ""Into the Spotlight"" provides the biographies of four more remarkable Missouri women. Sacred Sun, also called Mohongo, Emily Newell Blair, Josephine Baker and. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace.

In Injun Joe's Ghost, Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of ""hybridity"" from a biological to a cultural category.

Focusing on former student radicals at the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University, Lieberman presents a side of history that has been neglected in previous studies. He presents a collection of oral histories of Midwestern student New Left activists from the 1960s.

Russell Kirk has been regarded as one of the foremost figures of the post-World War II revival in conservative thought, yet no analysis of his writing has dealt extensively with the philosophical foundations of his work. W. Wesley McDonald demonstrates their impact on the conservative intellectual movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

This collection of essays by scholars of southern women's history traces the evolution of southern women's lives during the 20th century. Throughout this era, southern life and the opportunities for women changed dramatically as women assumed leadership roles in business, government and education.

This collection of essays is a compendium of Hattaway's writings spanning his career of more than 40 years. He has made many important scholarly contributions to the understanding of the Civil War, including the nature of good (and bad) military leadership.

Here, Philip Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. He also captures the period in his life in which he gradually stopped defining himself in terms of the game.

The letters in this volume are gathered from many sources and include missives sent by Truman to his daughter, his mother and sister, his cousins and of course his wife, Bess. This potpourri of information provides an intimate and revealing portrait of Truman and his remarkable career.

Lewis and Clark's expedition with the Corps of Discovery began in territorial Missouri and this book of computer-generated maps opens a window onto the rivers, land and settlement patterns of the period. It offers a detailed examination of the expedition in Missouri, through a series of 27 maps.