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Published to a flurry of praise--and consternation--from Lincoln scholars, Burlingame's book takes a hard and unsentimental look at, among other things, Abraham Lincoln's excruciating yet fruitful midlife crisis, his marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him, his estrangement from his father, his ......
Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
The Inner Civil War is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations.
This is an updated version of Karier's highly regarded Man, Society, and Education, which focuses on the concepts of human nature and community throughout American educational history. For the new edition, Karier has added chapters on the major movements in American education from World War II to the present and on the major Supreme Court cases ......
The Indiana Dunes Revealed offers the first comprehensive examination of a widely collected, much loved, and ecologically significant artist. Described by art historian William Gerdts as ''one of the finest painters working in the Midwest in the first decades of the twentieth century,'' Frank V. Dudley (1868-1957) was a native of Wisconsin who ......
Iconic American composer-bandmaster John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) led a disciplined group of devoted musicians on numerous American tours and around the world. Paul Bierley documents every aspect of the ''March King's'' band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings and radio, and the problems members faced on their 1911 ......
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) is an American icon. Most famous for his military marches, the composer bandmaster led a disciplined group of devoted musicians on numerous American tours and around the world, shaping a new cultural landscape. Paul Bierley has spent forty years documenting every aspect of the ''March King's'' band: its history, its ......
The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850
Since the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse has shifted away from the ''color'' of immigrants to their religion and culture, focusing on newcomers from Muslim countries who are feared as terrorists and the products of tribal societies with values fundamentally opposed to those of secular western EuropeLeo Lucassen's The Immigrant Threat tackles the ......
The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850
Since the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse has shifted away from the ''color'' of immigrants to their religion and culture, focusing on newcomers from Muslim countries who are feared as terrorists and the products of tribal societies with values fundamentally opposed to those of secular western EuropeLeo Lucassen's The Immigrant Threat tackles the ......
From the arrival of Marquette and Jolliet in 1673 to the emergence of the prairie poets - Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Vachel Lindsay - in the twentieth century, James Gray traces the saga of the Illinois River and the people of central Illinois. In vivid prose he depicts such famous figures as the French explorer Sieur de La Salle, ......
