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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.

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.

Explores WWII's implications for the lives of children. In thematic chapters, the author delves into children's experiences of family, school, play, work, and home, uncovering the range of effects the war had on youths of various ethnicities and backgrounds.

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.

Reviews a century of history to tell the story of the 'lost' boys who struggled to survive on the city's streets as it evolved from a booming late-nineteenth-century industrial center to a troubled mid-twentieth-century metropolis.

The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence fed by misunderstanding and suspicion. The Missouri persecutions greatly shaped Mormon faith and culture. This book reexamines Mormon-Missourian history within the sociocultural context of its time.

If, as some suggest, American literature began with ""Huckleberry Finn"", then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. This title offers students and general readers a broad perspective and fresh appreciation of this singular form of writing from the Old South - and provides some chuckles along the way.

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.

Offers advice and solutions to professional caregivers or family members confronted with incurable illness and death. This title covers diverse aspects of end-of-life care across multiple disciplines, offering a broad perspective on such central issues as control of pain and other symptoms, spirituality, and special concerns regarding the elderly.

Presents an eyewitness account of the American Expeditionary Forces' experience on the Western Front, offering an insider's view into the workings of Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett's commands, his day-to-day business, and how he orchestrated his commands in trying and confusing situations.

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.

Adopting research methodologies of revision and recovery, this edition is constructed around bibliographical surveys of both primary and secondary works addressing the Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth through twentieth century periods within the history of rhetoric. It recasts study in the history of rhetoric.

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.

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.

Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of 'loving thy neighbor as thyself'. This book argues that charity is a central tenet of what Lincoln once called America's 'political religion'. It explores the implications of making Christian love the highest moral standard for American democracy.

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.

Traces American prejudices toward Russia and China by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century. This work shows where American images of Russia and China originated, and how they have helped sustain foreign policies generally negative toward the former and positive toward the latter.

Spans fifty years of farm life to show that women saw farming as an opportunity to be full partners with their husbands and considered themselves businesswomen central to the success of their farms. This work explores the role of media in the farm woman's everyday life and discusses the construction of American farm women in those publications.

Covers early Axis intervention in Spain and their tests of new weaponry and blitzkrieg tactics at the cost of millions of Spanish lives. This work provides eyewitness impressions of what war looked, sounded, and felt like to soldiers on the ground.

A study of Abraham Lincoln's political thought. It combines political science, history and political theory to offer a fresh perspective on Lincoln, his thought, and the politics of Reconstruction. It seeks to determine why the spirit that successfully led the Union through the Civil War was unable to sustain itself during Reconstruction.

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.