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Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. Here Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life. In this volume, Larry Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions.

With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. It helped teach midwesterners to read music using shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenth-century New England.

This is an account of the years 1820 to 1865 in the life of Malindy, a freeborn Cherokee who was unlawfully enslaved as a child by a Franklin County, Missouri, farmer. Married to a freedman, Malindy gave birth to five children in slavery - creating a family she would fight her whole life to keep together.

Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever - an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country: Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers.

Tells the story of traditionalist conservatism and its boundaries in twentieth-century America. Because this time period encompasses both the rise of the modern conservative movement and the demise of southern regional distinctiveness, it affords an ideal setting both for observing the potentiality of American conservatism and for understanding the fate of the traditionalist "man of letters".

Taking seriously Mark Twain's life as a citizen of urban landscapes - from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna and the suburban utopia of Hartford - these essays represent Twain both as a product of urban frontiers and as a prophet of American modernity, situating him squarely within the context of an evolving international and cosmopolitan community.

The most bitter guerrilla conflict in American history raged along the Kansas-Missouri border from 1856 to 1865, making that frontier the first battleground in the struggle over slavery. Here the author examines the significance of the border war on both sides of the line and offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of its origins, meanings, and consequences.

Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's novel but hardly out of character - for the author, that is. This book explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the substantial cast of characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations.

Tsuyoshi Ishihara explores how Twain's work is viewed in a completely different culture. He considers Japanese translations of Twain's books, and the ways in which Japanese culture has shaped Japanese adaptations. Finally, he uses the example of Twain in Japan to delve into American cultural influences on other countries.

Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel Clemens' business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyses how these affected Clemens and the development of his Mark Twain persona and work.

One hundred years after its writing, Mark Twain's 'The Mysterious Stranger' remains a literary enigma. Twain's last significant full-length work of fiction and one of his most deeply philosophical works on the nature of truth and the human condition, it was unfinished at his death and has gained a reputation as an experimental text.

Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter was "going home". Part travelogue, part memoir, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family.

An in-depth analysis that examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Evaluates one of the most original and influential thinkers of our time by examining his relationship to the modern continental tradition in philosophy, from Kant to Derrida.

A narrative of the remarkable life of Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzieres, who fled revolutionary France in 1790 and trekked to the America. There he founded the city of New Bourbon and became its Spanish commandant, promoted westward settlement across the Mississippi, and, perhaps most importantly wrote extensive commentaries on the Mississippi frontier at the close of the colonial era.

An introduction to Missouri's chunk of Santa Fe Trail, providing an account of the trail's historical and cultural significance. It tells how the route evolved, stitched together from Indian paths, trappers' traces, and wagon roads, and how the experience of traveling the Santa Fe Trail varied even within Missouri.

Explores the connection between philosophy and practical politics through a study of six American chief executives: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton.

Traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James.

In 2007, it had been nearly fifty years since Mizzou's football program was ranked number one in the country and in contention for college football's national championship. The 2007 and 2008 Tigers proved nothing short of unforgettable. This book combines recaps of games with gridiron photos to look back at the 2007 and 2008 Missouri seasons.

On the night of his arrest for public intoxication, James Patrick Lyons was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. In his quest to uncover the details of his grandfather's life, the author re-creates the flavor of mid-twentieth-century Kansas City.

In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to more Jews than any other country at the start of World War II and location of six German-built death camps, the punishment was immediate execution. This book tells the stories of Polish Holocaust survivors and their rescuers.

What is 'human being'? This work offers a fresh understanding of this central question of our existence, turning to phenomenology and philosophical anthropology to help us understand who we are as individuals and communities and what makes us act they way we do.

Focuses on the topography of the Mississippi River and its floodplain. This work offers a comprehensive view of the riparian landscape as a living organism and of the effects of human intervention on its natural processes.

A story of an Austrian refugee who earned an American law degree in 1941 and set his sights on studying political science but a year later was drafted into the US Army.

The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St Louis was determined to stop them. This work provides a game-by-game account of the season with play-by-play action, conveying the physical and mental demands that the players endured.

As reports of genocide, terrorism, and political violence fill today's newscasts, more attention has been given to issues of human rights - but all too often the sound bytes seem overly simplistic. This book shows that the identification of rights with contemporary liberal democracy is inaccurate.