University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
by Joyce A. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
When E. Franklin Frazier was elected the first black president of the American Sociological Association in 1948, he was established as the leading American scholar on the black family and was also recognized as a leading theorist on the dynamics of social change and race relations. By 1948 his lengthy...
Dick Cole’s War
Doolittle Raider, Hump Pilot, Air Commando
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
With the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7, 2015 Dick Cole has long stood in the powerful spotlight of fame that has followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In recognition the tremendous boost...
Not So Simple
The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories.
Harper...
From SWEETBACK to SUPER FLY
Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Americans. In From Sweetback to Super Fly, Gerald Buttersexamines the movie theaters in Chicago’s Loop that became, as he describes them, “black spaces”...
Ethical Communication
Moral Stances in Human Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces students and practitioners to important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to...
Byline, Richard Wright
Articles from the DAILY WORKER and NEW MASSES
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A writer perhaps best known for the revolutionary works Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright also worked as a journalist during one of the most explosive periods of the 20th century. From 1937 to 1938, Wright turned out more than two hundred articles for the Daily Worker, the newspaper that served...
The State Park Movement in America
A Critical Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Essentially a phenomenon of the twentieth century, America’s pioneering state park movement has grown rapidly and innovatively to become one of the most important forces in the preservation of open spaces and the provision of public outdoor recreation in the country. During this time, the movement...
East-West Literary Imagination
Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists...
Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles
The Enigma of Francis Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Since the first installment of Dunnett’s series was published in 1961, Francis Crawford of Lymond, the swashbuckling protagonist of the stories, has been captivating his fellow characters and readers alike. Instead of approaching the books primarily as historical fiction, Richardson, an enthusiastic...
The Confederate Constitution of 1861
An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
In The Confederate Constitution of 1861, Marshall DeRosa argues that the Confederate Constitution was not, as is widely believed, a document designed to perpetuate a Southern "slaveocracy," but rather an attempt by the Southern political leadership to restore the Anti-Federalist standards...
Bareface
A Guide to C.S. Lewis's Last Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
C. S. Lewis wanted to name his last novel “Bareface.” Now Doris T. Myers’s Bareface provides a welcome study of Lewis’s last, most profound, and most skillfully written novel, Till We Have Faces. Although many claim it is his best novel, Till We Have Faces is a radical departure from the fantasy...
America's Sailors in the Great War
Seas, Skies, and Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2016 Lyman Awards, presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History
This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I.
When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America’s sailors were immediately...
The First Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed
Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This fast-paced and compelling read closes a significant gap in the historiography of the late Cold War U.S. Army and is crucial for understanding the current situation in the Middle East.
From the author's introduction:
“My purpose is a narrative history of the 1st Infantry Division from...