The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck's introduction...
Remembering The Battle of the Crater
War as Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The battle of the Crater is known as one of the Civil War's bloodiest struggles -- a Union loss with combined casualties of 5,000, many of whom were members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) under Union Brigadier General Edward Ferrero. The battle was a violent clash of forces as Confederate...
Lincoln on Trial
Southern Civilians and the Law of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In light of recent controversies and legal actions related to America's treatment of enemy prisoners in the Middle East and Guantánamo Bay, the regulation of government during wartime has become a volatile issue on the global scene. By today's standards, Lincoln's adherence to the laws of war could...
The View from the Ground
Experiences of Civil War Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Civil War scholars have long used soldiers' diaries and correspondence to flesh out their studies of the conflict's great officers, regiments, and battles. However, historians have only recently begun to treat the common Civil War soldier's daily life as a worthwhile topic of discussion in its own...
Bees in America
How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Honey bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language. Bees...
Why Air Forces Fail
The Anatomy of Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
According to Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, "Flight has been part of the human dream for aeons, and its military application has likely been the dark side of that dream for almost as long." In the twentieth century, this dream and its dark side unfolded as the air forces of the world...
Lake Monster Mysteries
Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world -- from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland -- have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quickly disappear. While the most famous lake monsters of Loch Ness and Lake Champlain have gained international...
Act of Justice
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would "have no lawful right" to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged...
Blood in the Hills
A History of Violence in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued...
by John C. Inscoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities. John C. Inscoe has spent much of his scholarly career exploring the...
West Virginia
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape....
Alvin York
A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Alvin C. York (1887--1964) -- devout Christian, conscientious objector, and reluctant hero of World War I -- is one of America's most famous and celebrated soldiers. Known to generations through Gary Cooper's Academy Award-winning portrayal in the 1941 film Sergeant York, York is credited with the...
Truman, Congress, and Korea
The Politics of America's First Undeclared War
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Three days after North Korean premier Kim Il Sung launched a massive military invasion of South Korea on June 24, 1950, President Harry S. Truman responded, dispatching air and naval support to South Korea. Initially, Congress cheered his swift action; but, when China entered the war to aid North...
by Arthur Lennig
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history. Stubborn, arrogant, and colorful, he saw himself as a cinema artist, which led to conflicts with producers and studio executives who complained about the inflated budgets and extraordinary length of his films. Stroheim...