Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century
An history of war brides in 20th-century American history. It uses relationships between American male soldiers and foreign women as a lens to view larger issues of sexuality, race, and gender in United States foreign relations. It traces how war and post-war anxieties about power and national identity have long been projected onto war brides.
Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus. Their life stories date to 1883 Purdue and ......
The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald
Captain Bill McDonald (1852-1918) is the most prominent of the ""Four Great Captains"" of Texas Ranger history. His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1891 McDonald became captain of Company B of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. ""Captain Bill"" and the Rangers under his command took ......
From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn't called 'the city that never sleeps' for nothing. This book reveals several of the remaining hidden gems of Manhattan's nineteenth- and twentieth-century entertainment industry.
In a time of remarkable but selective amnesia in the West reflected perhaps most dramatically in the denial of the Christian roots of Europe in the first drafts of the European constitution, ""Understanding Europe"" is as relevant today as it was on its first appearance in 1952. Christopher Dawson wrote of the uneasiness that characterized ......
By Those Who Knew Them illuminates the lives of several key figures involved in the modernist movement - the movement for intellectual and structural renewal in turn-of-the-century Catholicism. The historical reality of the movement is complex. On one hand, its members sought to bring the Church into more positive relationship with the modern ......
Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-century American Operas
Whether you are ""in the business,"" or a music theorist, musicologist, or simply an opera fan - read on! This is an analytical monograph by a Schenkerian theorist, but it is also written by one performer and enthusiast for another. ""Tonality as Drama"" draws on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology to answer a ......
