University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
Expedition of Thirst
Exploring Breweries, Wineries, and Distilleries across the Heart of Kansas and Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Set out with a true aficionado and affable guide to sample a dizzying array of beverages made in America's heartland. Expedition of Thirst maps routes that crisscross eastern Kansas and western Missouri, with stops at some 150 breweries, wineries, and distilleries along the way. Pete Dulin, a seasoned...
Crusader for Democracy
The Political Life of William Allen White
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
“Roosevelt bit me and I went mad,” William Allen White said of his first encounter with Teddy in 1897. He grudgingly praised Franklin D. Roosevelt’s performance at the 1943 Casablanca Conference with, “We who hate your gaudy guts salute you.” Editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, the Sage...
The Rise of Gridiron University
Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The quarterback sends his wide receiver deep. The crowd gasps as he launches the ball. And when he hits his man, the team's fans roar with approval—especially those with the deep pockets. Make no mistake; college football is big business, played with one eye on the score, the other on the bottom...
A Conflict of Principles
The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of...
by William E. Unrau
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Santa Fe Trail Association Award of Merit
In the culture of the American West, images abound of Indians drunk on the white man's firewater, a historical stereotype William Unrau has explored in two previous books. His latest study focuses on how federally-developed roads from Missouri to northern...
Elevations
A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river's unique story. Part adventure and part...
Osage Women and Empire
Gender and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women....
Framing the Farm Bill
Interests, Ideology, and Agricultural Act of 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In January 2014, for the first time in the history of federal farm legislation going back to the Great Depression, all four members of the US House of Representatives from Kansas voted against the Farm Bill, despite pleas by the state's agricultural leaders to support it. Why? The story of the Agricultural...
Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers
A Family Journey through American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Nearly 250 years after ninety-five-year-old Elder Thomas Faunce got caught up in the mythmaking around Plymouth Rock, his great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Hilda Faunce Wetherill died in Pacific Grove, California, leaving behind a cache of letters and family papers. The remarkable story...
Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate
The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader—and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how...
Gospel According to the Klan
The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture.
Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization...
The End of Sustainability
Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine—and ultimately move past—the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating...
The Bakke Case
Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2000
Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action. Bakke claimed that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, and his case...
Understanding Clarence Thomas
The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Though Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court Justice for nearly 25 years and has written close to five hundred opinions, legal scholars and pundits have given him short shrift, often, in fact, dismissing him as a narrow partisan, a silent presence on the bench, an enemy of his race, a tool of Antonin...