The ultimate resource for sport fishing in southern Illinois Southern Illinois's many waterways teem with an incredible variety of fish species, and award-winning fisherman and journalist Colby Simms knows exactly where and how to catch them all. Within these pages, Simms shares the secrets he's gleaned from years of hard-won experience: ......
Global perspectives on policing within LGBTQ+ communities Relationships between law enforcement and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities have always been varied and complex. On one hand, history is filled with incidents of police harassment: raids that sparked famous uprisings and rebellions; shoddy police ......
Global perspectives on policing within LGBTQ+ communities Relationships between law enforcement and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities have always been varied and complex. On one hand, history is filled with incidents of police harassment: raids that sparked famous uprisings and rebellions; shoddy police ......
A literary discovery of considerable magnitude, these 98 previously unpub-lished poems by John Dewey, written principally in the 1910-18 period, illu-minate an emotive aspect in his intel-lectual life often not manifest in the prose works. Rumors of the existence of the poems have circulated among students of Dewey's life and writings since 1957, ......
Centering Black grief in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth carried out the first presidential assassination in United States history.?The euphoria resulting from General Lee's surrender evaporated at the news of Abraham Lincoln's murder. The nation-excepting many white Southerners-found itself consumed ......
Celebrating and analyzing a landmark novel that is aberrant, obscene, and blasphemous, "Naked Lunch" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959, and yet fifty years down the line it has lost nothing of its power to astonish and inspire. A lacerating satire, an exorcism of demons, a grotesque cabinet of horrors, and a landmark ......
This provocative new study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War - killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but ......
In 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events occurring within the executive mansion and the national Capitol, their lengthy biography is more a recounting of the Civil War era than a study of ......
American filmmakers appropriate the "look" of horror in Holocaust films and often use Nazis and Holocaust imagery to explain evil in the world, say authors Caroline J. S. Picart and David A. Frank. In "Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film", Picart and Frank challenge this classic horror frame - the narrative and visual borders ......
