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Based on his war journal, letters and personal records, this account of the 1943-1945 campaign in Italy is an account of Lloyd Wells's personal war.

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.

As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have travelled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience.

A challenge of the 21st century is the danger of conflict between peoples and cultures, among and within societies. This study explores the nature of this problem and sets forth a theory about what is necessary for peaceful relations to be possible.

Three weeks prior to the bombing of Pear Harbor, Japanese Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks. For more than seventy years, many have viewed Kurusu's visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Garry Clifford and Masako Okura seek to dispel this myth with this edition of Kurusu's memoir.

The purpose of this edited and abridged edition of Truman's memoirs is to find the essentially important story, told in the authentic voice of Harry S. Truman. Raymond Geselbracht's aim is for a new generation of readers to find this edition of Truman's memoirs readily approachable and enjoyable to read.

Traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the East-West exchange through discussions of the interactions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac.

Chronicles the experience of raising a severely autistic child. In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, the author recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their son's disability. It is a story that takes the reader into the life of a child who exists in his own world, and describes the hardships faced by those who love and care for him.

The second volume of this critically acclaimed autobiography chronicles events in Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life between his departure with his family from Buffalo for Elmira and Hartford in spring 1871 and his departure with his family from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.

Glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later Victorian period. Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ""proto-ecofeminist"" poets who contested the exploitation of the natural world.

The author argues that the victory of the Democratic party in the 1992 presidential election marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but also the failure of American conservatism.

As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances - as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analysing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort.

Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history, who devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. This volume seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding Bethune, showing that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth.

"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were."--Jacket flap.

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.

A comprehensive study of Clemens's love affair with Bermuda, a depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. This book sheds light on both Clemens's complex character and the topography and history of the islands. He offers insight into Bermuda's natural environment, traditional stone houses, and romantic past.

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.

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.

The idea that the three branches of US government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. David Siemers shows that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. He explains how adherence to this myth normalizes a politics of gridlock.

Offers an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers' organisations, labour unions, and political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time. He also argues that the significance of these movements lasted beyond their own time.

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.