University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
The Deadlocked Election of 1800
Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
It was one of the most critical elections of American history, overshadowed only by the one that plunged the country into civil war. The deadlocked election of 1800 has earned considerable attention and debate from historians; now James Roger Sharp reveals that modern observers didn't necessarily...
Stopped at Stalingrad
The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, he knew that his military machine was running out of fuel. In response, he launched Operation Blau, a campaign designed to protect Nazi oilfields in Rumania while securing new ones in the Caucasus. All that stood in the way was Stalingrad.
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Japan's Imperial Army
Its Rise and Fall
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how...
The Big Trial
Law as Public Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The trial of O. J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier the Lizzie Borden trial had held the nation in thrall. The names (and the crimes) may change, but the appeal is enduring—and why this is, how it...
The Road to Chinese Exclusion
The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred—in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880—it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who had crossed the Pacific...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere...
The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights
How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it's that rights do not exist in a vacuum. What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage used appeals to religious liberty and parental rights to win ballot measure campaigns,...
by John J. Dinan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.S. Constitution drafted in 1787. Yet constitutional debates at the state level open a window on how Americans, in different places and at different times, have chosen to govern themselves. From New Hampshire in 1776...
America's Captives
Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive...
by Ellen Wohl
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earth’s interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults. To learn what humans, in our brief lifespan, have done here is to acquire...
Yellowstone and the Smithsonian
Centers of Wildlife Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In the winter of 1996–97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time, thousands more have been killed or hazed back into the park, as wildlife managers struggle to accommodate an animal that does not recognize man-made...
Rock Island Requiem
The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company—the Rock Island Line—was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast freights and Rocket passenger trains but eventually succumbed to government regulation and a changing...
by Robert R. Dykstra, JoAnn Manfra
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to “get outta Dodge”—to make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore. But why, of all the notorious, violent cities of old, did Dodge win this distinction? And...
Ellen and Edith
Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought to have had little impact on history. Edith Bolling Wilson was flamboyant and confident but left a legacy of controversy....