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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.

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.

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.

Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of Harry S. Truman's presidency is his judicial legacy, with biographies neglecting to consider the influence he had on the Supreme Court. Yet, as Rawn James lays, as president, Harry Truman molded the high court into a judicial body that appeared to actively support his administration's political agenda.

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.

Examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning.

This text is an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as ""the decisive problem of philosophy"": the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding.

Tells the story of how film-makers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry.

Adolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by Abstract Expressionism and the following movements in American art. In this wide-ranging biography, Henry Adams explores how a once central figure can come to be forgotten.

In the age of #MeToo and a radical re-envisioning of cultural attitudes, Nancy McCabe sets out to re-examine and gain new understanding of her ill-advised marriage through the lens of multiple metaphors, images, and forms.

As word of the discovery of gold in northern California spreads, an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. Alongside some two hundred emigres from northern Europe is a contingent of wealthy British people who call themselves not immigrants, but colonists.

Offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. In doing so, Amy Fluker provides the most complete look yet at the construction of Civil War memory in Missouri.

Written by expert scientists, this collection of essays addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on earth possible.

The previously unpublished essays collected here are by literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to reading and studying nineteenth-century British fiction and the Victorian world. Each writes about a novel that has acquired personal relevance to them.

In this blunt critique of the leadership of the US Army, Colonel Pat Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the US Army refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through low-intensity conflicts in the 1980s and '90s, and leaving it unprepared for Afghanistan and Iraq.