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As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. In The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. Lause examines the complex political and social context of what became known as "Price's Raid," the final significant Southern operation west of the Mississippi River.

This anthology grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era. Those conferences established an academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era.

Provides the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text.

Refutes certain misconceptions about the current European Left and its relation to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist parties that existed in the recent past. Among the misconceptions that the book treats critically is that the Post-Marxist Left springs from a Marxist tradition of thought and represents a rejection of American values and practices.

Reviews the Wilson administration's attitudes toward Russia before, during, and after the Bolshevik seizure of power. The authors argue that before the Russian Revolution, Woodrow Wilson had little understanding of Russia and made poor appointments that cost the United States Russian goodwill.

Takes a humanistic approach to the Civil War, revealing the more personal aspects of the struggle that focuses on the soldiers themselves. This book also looks at soldiers' racial views, illuminating their deepest worries about the war, and at community politics and problems of discipline surrounding this ideologically divided unit.

Offers a full-length biography of Louisa S. McCord, one of the most intriguing intellectuals in antebellum America. The daughter of South Carolina planter and politician Langdon Cheves, McCord supported unregulated free trade, the perpetuation of slavery, and opposed the advancement of women's rights. This book examines the origins of her ideas.

Examines television's rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. With discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and others, Sara Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the '60s.

In the 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success. All three were involved with the Left, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels' political themes; and why they separated from the Left.

Throughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and private letters. This is the study of the literary dimensions of Voegelin's philosophy. It shows how Voegelin's philosophy is rooted in literary-symbolic interpretation and provides a foundation for the interpretation of literature.

Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented.

Examines several narratives involving religion's historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven Christian daily newspaper; and the ways in which religion pressured the press to become a moral agent.

The 35th Infantry Division was made up from the national guards of Missouri and Kansas. With little in the way of battlefield training, this division was committed to the Battle of Meuse-Argonne in 1918 and within five days had ceased to be an effective fighting force.

Reviews the life of Houck from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. This title tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through ""Swampeast Missouri"".

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s, small-town Missouri where he grew up. This selection of Wilson's early work, written between 1955 and 1967 provides a rare look at a young writer developing his style.

The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is vital to truly understanding Mark Twain's novel.

Autobiographical insights on the inner workings of "The Flying Fifteenth" and one airman's World War II experience facing stultifying boredom, stupefying incompetence, paralyzing fear, and stunning success.

The culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, this book explicates and justifies society's moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle's concept of telos.

Haywood provides a critical appraisal of the autobiographies of four black women preachers in 19th-century America to discover how they faced and challenged the discriminatory ideologies of race and gender they faced in their pursuit of spreading the Word of God throughout the USA.

John Henry Wigmore, dean of the Northwestern University School of Law, single-handedly modernized the jury trial with his 1904-05 Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law. Yet Wigmore's role as a prophet of modernity has slipped into obscurity. This book provides a radical reappraisal of his place in the birth of modern legal thought.

It is the memoir of George Elsey, a small-town kid from western Pennsylvania who, at age twenty-four, was assigned to Franklin Roosevelt's top-secret intelligence and communications center in the White House. Elsey played an important part in two different presidents' decisions and has affected the course of the United States.

Why hasn't democracy been embraced worldwide as the best form of government? Addressing the question from a different perspective, this work takes a fresh look at the worth of liberal democracy in these uncertain times and tackles head-on the thorny question of cultural development.

Well-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of US policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time.

A biography of Francois Valle that places him within the context of his place and time. Valle immigrated to Upper Louisiana as a penniless common labourer during the early 1740s. Engaged in agriculture, mining and the Indian trade, he became a wealthy and powerful individual.