University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
by John E. Finn
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The U. S. Constitution begins with the soaring words "We the People," but we, the people, have little to do with the document as most of us have come to know it. When most people think of the constitution they think of it as a legal instrument, the province of judges and lawyers, who alone...
Flying against Fate
Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as...
The Election of 1860
A Campaign Fraught with Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Because of its extraordinary consequences and because of Abraham Lincoln’s place in the American pantheon, the presidential election of 1860 is probably the most studied in our history. But perhaps for the same reasons, historians have focused on the contest of Lincoln versus Stephen Douglas in...
The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers
Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“Were this story a novel, it would have the character of an implausible fable, but as often occurred in the Holocaust, reality exceeds the imagination.”—Michael Berenbaum, from the Foreword
When Hitler invaded Warsaw in the fall of 1939, hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped...
Our Man in Mexico
Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This ebook edition contains a new preface "Winston Scott and the Events of November 1963" designed to inform the discussion and debate surrounding the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies,...
Hoover's War on Gays
Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades...
Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
They were foot soldiers and officers. They served in the regular army and the Waffen-SS. And, remarkably, they were also Jewish, at least as defined by Hitler's infamous race laws. Pursuing the thread he first unraveled in Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, Bryan Rigg takes a closer look at the experiences...
by Stephen R. Taaffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Wedged chronologically between World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War—which began with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in June of 1950—possessed neither the virtuous triumphalism of the former nor the tragic pathos of the latter. Most Americans supported defending South Korea, but there...
The 9/11 Terror Cases
Constitutional Challenges in the War against Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are indelibly etched into our cultural memory. This is the story of how the legal ramifications of that day brought two presidents, Congress, and the Supreme Court into repeated confrontation over the incarceration of hundreds of suspected terrorists and "enemy combatants"...
A Gallant Little Army
The Mexico City Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott's military campaign—America's first ever in a foreign country—helped pave the way for victory...
Presidents on Political Ground
Leaders in Action and What They Face
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
How much power does a president really have? Theories and arguments abound—pointlessly, Bruce Miroff says, if we don't understand the context in which presidents operate. Borrowing from Machiavelli, Miroff maps five fields of political struggle that presidents must traverse to make any headway:...
Planning War, Pursuing Peace
The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1920-1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In the years following World War I, America's armed services, industry, and government took lessons from that conflict to enhance the country's ability to mobilize for war. Paul Koistinen examines how today's military-industrial state emerged during that period—a time when the army and navy embraced...
Arsenal of World War II
The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business....
Watergate
The Presidential Scandal That Shook America?With a New Afterword by Max Holland
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous “Deep Throat,” the media’s role in the scandal, both during and afterwards, including Bob Woodward’s Second Man. Arguably the greatest political scandal...