University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Bugle Resounding
Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
In the mid-nineteenth century the United States was musically vibrant. Rising industrialization, a growing middle class, and increasing concern for the founding of American centers of art created a culture that was rich in musical capital. Beyond its importance to the people who created and played...
A More Beautiful Question
The Spiritual in Poetry and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
As more and more people in North America and Europe have distanced themselves from mainstream religious traditions over the past centuries, a “crisis of faith” has emerged and garnered much attention. But Glenn Hughes, author of A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art, contends...
The Baron in the Grand Canyon
Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer...
The Life of Mark Twain
The Middle Years, 1871–1891
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.
During this time he wrote and...
Reminiscences of Conrad S. Babcock
The Old U.S. Army and the New, 1898-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
The son of an army officer, Conrad S. Babcock graduated from West Point in 1898, just in time for the opening of the Spanish-American War. Because of his father’s position, he managed to secure a place in the force that Major General Wesley Merritt led to Manila to secure the city. The Philippine...
by Robert H. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The idea of revising what is known of the past constitutes an essential procedure in historical scholarship, but revisionists are often hasty and argumentative in their judgments. Such, argues Robert H. Ferrell, has been the case with assessments of the presidency of Harry S. Truman, who was targeted...
by Robert H. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Available for the first time in paperback, The Strange Deaths of President Harding challenges readers to reexamine Warren G. Harding's rightful place in American history.
For nearly half a century, the twenty-ninth president of the United States has consistently finished last in polls ranking...
The Cinematic Voyage of THE PIRATE
Kelly, Garland, and Minnelli at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
During Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s glory days, the studio’s famous Arthur Freed Unit made an extraordinary string of dazzling musicals. One of its very best was The Pirate. Based on a successful 1942 Broadway production, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and starred Gene Kelly and Judy Garland....
Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer
The Army PX in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Veterans of World War II have long sung the praises of the PX—a little piece of home in far-flung corners of the world. Though many books on that war tell of combat operations and logistics in detail, this is the first to tell the full story of the Army Exchange System.
The AES was dedicated...
by Ellis Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life, Tocqueville’s nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping America is largely overlooked today. Now, in Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Ellis Sandoz reveals the major role that Protestant Christianity played...
The Fishing Creek Confederacy
A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Media Kit
One hundred fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States. However, most Americans forget that he was elected with only 40 percent of the popular vote. Many Democratic newspapers across...
Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge
A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
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, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was “going home.” Part travelogue,...
The Patience of Pearl
Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the “discarnate entity” Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan. Though now virtually forgotten, her writing garnered both critical praise and public popularity at...
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt
Toward a Secular Theocracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried’s examination of Western managerial government’s growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike...