University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
American Burke
The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) may be best known as a statesman. He served in the administrations of presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford; was ambassador to India and the United Nations; and represented New York in the U.S. Senate for four terms. But he was also an intellectual of the...
A Yankee Ace in the RAF
The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
The engines are started, twenty shiny propellers glistening in the sun, forty exhausts rumbling and belching blue smoke. . . . Everything ready, the pilot waves his hand, the blocks are pulled and the flights taxi out one at a time. Away goes the commander, motor roaring, streamers flying, and the...
Devil Dogs Chronicle
Voices of the 4th Marine Brigade in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
The 4th Marine Brigade, with roughly 10,000 men, was the only large Marine unit to see major action in World War I. Dubbed "Devil Dogs" by the Germans, the 4th was part of the 2nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, nicknamed the "Race Horse Division" for its rapid and...
Liberty and Equality
The American Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the greatest commentators on the American political tradition, viewed it through the lens of two related ideas: liberty and equality. These ideas, so eloquently framed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, have remained inextricably and uniquely conjoined...
The Fourth Amendment in Flux
The Roberts Court, Crime Control, and Digital Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
When the Founders penned the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, it was not difficult to identify the “persons, houses, papers, and effects” they meant to protect; nor was it hard to understand what “unreasonable searches and seizures” were. The Fourth Amendment was intended to stop the...
The Real Making of the President
Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory—whether as an underdog's heroic triumph or a liberal crusader's overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts...
Party over Section
The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Choice Outstanding Title
The presidential campaign of 1848 saw the first strong electoral challenge to the expansion of slavery in the United States; most historians consider the appearance of the Free Soil Party in that election a major turning point of the nineteenth century. The three-way...
by Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might have imagined. Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison...
The Cambodian Wars
Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the...
A Military History of Afghanistan
From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The history of Afghanistan is largely military history. From the Persians and Greeks of antiquity to the British, Soviet, and American powers in modern times, outsiders have led military conquests into the mountains and plains of Afghanistan, leaving their indelible marks on this ancient land at the...
Chief Executive to Chief Justice
Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
As our 27th president from 1909 to 1913, and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930, William Howard Taft was the only man ever to lead two of America's three governing branches. But between these two well-documented periods in office, there lies an eight-year patch of largely...
Magic Bean
The Rise of Soy in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially...
Health Divided
Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The United States’ health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine. Seeking to explain how this division came to be, what alternative paths might have been taken, and how this shapes the contemporary landscape, Daniel Sledge offers...
The Japanese American Cases
The Rule of Law in Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented “military necessity,” ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, almost all reluctantly obeyed their government...