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For more than 130 years, the Missouri Secretary of State's Office has published what is commonly known as the "Blue Book". Missouri's history and the work of its public servants have been collected in this book every other year since 1878. Each edition of the "Blue Book" is a snapshot of Missouri history.

Many studies have considered the Bible's relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

The Veiled Prophet organisation has been an institution in St Louis for more than a century. Founded in 1878, it was fashioned after the New Orleans Carnival society the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Thomas Spencer explores the social and cultural functions of the organisation's annual celebration and traces the shifts that occurred in its importance.

The format of the book is an homage to the in-depth conversational interviews Hugh Hefner pioneered as the editor and publisher of Playboy magazine. Stuart Brotman conducted in-person interviews with eight persons who in their lifetimes have come to represent a 'greatest generation' of free speech and free press scholars and advocates.

In 1973, Betsy Ann Plank became the first woman to chair the Public Relations Society of America in its twenty-five-year history. This book explores how she managed to navigate the very real barriers of gender-based discrimination that existed in PR at least through the 1970s, and how she ultimately became devoted to PR education.

Autonomy is foundational to journalism. But where does the idea of autonomy come from, and what is it that journalism should be autonomous from? This book presents the genealogy of the idea of journalistic autonomy from the seventeenth century to our contemporary digital age.

A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theatre until the final surrender of the war. This full-length study of the officer documents how, despite his meteoric military career, his accomplishments were underreported and often misrepresented in the historical record.

Louise Gluck has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named US poet laureate for 2003-2004. This book explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales. It discusses her sense of self, of Judaism, and of the poetic tradition.

In this first full-length study of Claiborne Fox Jackson, Christopher Phillips offers much more than a traditional biography. His extensive analysis of Jackson's rise to power through the tangle that was Missouri's antebellum politics and of Jackson's complex actions in pursuit of his state's secession offers a broader story of regional identity.

Until recently, many of Missouri's legal records were inaccessible and the existence of many influential, historic cases was unknown. The ten essays in this volume showcase Missouri as both maker and microcosm of American history.

The last installment of Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Clemens between his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 and his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works.

Conceived of as a way to commemorate Missouri's bicentennial of statehood, this unique work presents the perspective of Gary Kremer, one of the Show-Me State's foremost historians, on how history has played out in the two centuries since Missouri's admittance to the Union.

Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri 'Question', in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.

Draws on contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and her own oral history project to tell the first full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital - as well as brings new facts and insights into the life and mysterious murder (still an unsolved case) of the hospital's namesake, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, thousands of former slaves made their way from the South to the Kansas plains. Called ""Exodusters,"" they were searching for their own promised land. This work tells the story of the American exodus as it played out in St Louis, a key stop in the journey west.

Offers insights into the varied experiences of black militia units in the post-Civil War period. The book includes eleven articles that focus either on 'Black Participation in the Militia' or 'Black Volunteer Units in the War with Spain'. The articles provide an overview of the history of early black citizen-soldiers.

The correspondence of these two prominent women reveals their concerns with love, career, and marriage. Their letters tell the story of the first generation of women to come of age during the twentieth century, as they tried to cope with problems that still face women today.

The struggles endured by American civilians during the Second World War are well documented, but accounts of the war years have mostly deliberated on the grown-ups' sacrifices. In The Forgotten Generation, Lisa Ossian explores the war's full implications for the lives of children.

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in "news factories" by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. During this time, the newsroom was more than a physical place--it symbolically represented all that was good and bad in journalism, from the shift from blue- to white-collar work to the flexing of journalism's power as a watchdog on government and an advocate for social reform. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.

Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Tennessee Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.

Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference on Constitutional Democracy. Contributors reassess and add to historians' understanding of the full scope of the causes and consequences of what came to be known as the Missouri Crisis, on a regional and national basis.

The issue of what would come to be known as the Missouri Crisis tested the still young American republic and, some four decades later, would all but rend it asunder. This collection of essays engages the intersections of history and constitutional law, and is certain to find eager readers among historians, legal scholars, and political scientists.

The scraps of a young migrant's schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with the starting point for this study of migration, memory, and identity. Centering on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, this book examines the governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in South St. Louis in the early twentieth century.

Tells the extraordinary tale of two sisters, Mary Alice Heinbach and Euphemia B. Koller, and their seventeen-year property dispute against America's leading cement corporation - the Atlas Portland Cement Company.

Tells the story of James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure. A self-taught lawyer, Turner earned a statewide reputation and wielded power far out of proportion to Missouri's relatively small black population.

Considers happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions, and focuses on its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era: Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and the Declaration. In so doing, Carli Conklin makes several contributions to the fields of early American intellectual and legal history.

Recovers journalistic work by an American icon for whom scholarly recognition is long overdue. Amy Mattson Lauters introduces readers to Rose Wilder Lane's life through examples of her journalism and argues that her work and career help establish her not only as an author and political rhetorician but also as a literary journalist.

Closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. This narrative centres on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division.