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Conrad Wise Chapman

Artist and Solider of the Confederacy

by Ben Bassham
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Conrad Wise Chapman (1842-1910) is unique among Civil War artists: he painted and sketched while on duty as a Confederate soldier who served in three theaters of the war. Chapman’s first-hand knowledge is evident in his work. Ben Bassham has written both a critical study of Chapman’s art and a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016

Translators Writing, Writing Translators is a collection of essays by some of the leading scholar-practitioners working in the field of translation studies. Inspired by the work of distinguished translator and theorist Carol Maier, the contributors reflect, in a variety of forms—from biographical...
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by Jonathan Goodman, Albert Borowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014

A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these...
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by Robert Miltner
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011

“What continues to affect me in Robert Miltner’s Against the Simple is the silence that haunts the edges of experience and meaning. Like the lonely streetscapes of Giorgia De Chirico, Miltner’s poems, often cast in brief sentences surrounded by an eerie quiet, haunt us with the unseen and the...
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Unknown Soldiers

The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance

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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008

The Great War remembered “This book is not a history of World War I, nor is it a history of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front. Rather, it is a collection of essays that examines how the wartime generation and those that followed have remembered or commemorated individuals,...
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by Kate Northrop
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013

Kate Northrop’s Back Through Interruption is a deeply moving and thought-provoking collection of poetry. It takes the reader through a world that is at once beautiful and tragic, sacrosanct and profane. “Kate Northrop’s elegant, intelligent, wonderfully plotted first book, Back Through...
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Building Utopia

Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930

by Richard Cartwright Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2000

Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the...
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by John M. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures—the harp—is the subject of this new work, the first study of its kind to be published in English. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America, and...
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Bandersnatch

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings

by Diana Pavlac Glyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
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by Robert Boenig
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012

Medieval literature and the imagination of C. S. Lewis 2015 winner of the Mythopoeic Society’s Award for Inkling Studies In C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, medievalist Robert Boenig explores Lewis’s personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues...
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by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

A new look at some gruesome and riveting murdersIn this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American...
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A Man of Distinction Among Them

Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs Along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799

by Larry L. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013

A Man of Distinction among Them represents an important step in under standing the complexities surrounding the early history of the Ohio Country and the Old Northwest and provides the clearest and most comprehensive portrait of a central figure in that history: Alexander McKee. Fathered by...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the border conflict called “Pontiac’s War.” Brokering a truce without violence and through negotiations, he ordered the Delawares and Shawnees to release all of their...
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Lincoln's Lover

Mary Lincoln in Poetry

by Jason Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

In his Poetics, Aristotle said a historian and a poet do not differ from each other-one simply writes in verse and the other in prose. In fact, history and poetry have a long connection; much of what we know about ancient history throughout the world came to us through the centuries and millennia...
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