A teenaged Helen Stephens stunned the crowd at the 1936 Berlin Olympics when she emerged from obscurity to run the 100 meters in 11.5 seconds, setting a world record that wouldn't be beat for twenty-four years. But her career or her notoriety didn't peak there. She sued Look magazine for insinuating she was a man and won. She was the first woman ......
Janice Schuetz investigates the felony trials of nine American women from colonial Salem to the present: Rebecca Nurse, tried for witchcraft in 1692; Mary E. Surratt, tried in 1865 for assisting John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Lizzie Andrew Borden, tried in 1892 for the ax murder of her father and stepmother; Margaret ......
Historians on America's Most Controversial First Lady
In this fascinating collection, thirteen engaging authors share their views of Mary Lincoln's complex nature and show how she is viewed today. With a superb blend of private and public views of her life, mixed with gripping prose and in-depth documentation, this anthology sheds new light on the enigmatic Mary Lincoln and will capture the ......
In this first sustained critique of current-traditional rhetorical theory, Sharon Crowley uses a postmodern, deconstructive reading to examine the historical development of current-traditional rhetoric. She identifies it (as well as the British new rhetoric from which it developed) as a philosophy of language use, not a rhetorical theory, and she ......
Hermann F. Eilts, former Ambassador to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, takes a broad look ahead: "The Middle East in 1985--Through a Murky Crystal." Eric Rouleau, Le Monde, discusses "Prospects for Instability and New Leadership." Michael Sterner, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, counters with "Prospects for Stability and New Leader-ship." ......
Ronald E. Day provides a historically informed critical analysis of the concept and politics of information in the twentieth century. Analyzing texts in Europe and the United States, his critical reading method goes beyond traditional historiographical readings of communication and information by engaging specific historical texts in terms of ......
The Nativity by Arnoul Greban is a fifteenth-century French Christmas play, based on an orthodox interpretation of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke that is part of Greban's vast cyclic drama in verse, The Mystery of the Passion. Greban's masterpiece (circa 1450) calls for hundreds of characters and requires several days for its production as it ......
Extraordinary advances in neurochemistry are both transforming our understanding of human nature and creating an urgent problem. Much is now known about the ways that neurotransmitters influence normal social behavior, mental illness, and deviance. What are these discoveries about the workings of the human brain? How can they best be integrated ......
Judith Moffett presents substantial selections of five important nineteenth-century Swedish poets in formal translation, with en face text, critical and biographical introductory essays, and notes. Each of the poets - Esaias Tegner, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, Gustaf Froding, and Erik Axel Karlfeldt - made a significant contribution to ......
