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Michener Award-winning author Laurie Alberts' memoir provides a glimpse into the lives of ordinary Russians during the last years of the Soviet empire, while also portraying the difficulties of American/Soviet relations on the most personal of levels - the ways in which Cold War politics warped human connections.

The essays in this collection honor Professor Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and founding director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, an institute at Louisiana State University devoted to research and publication in the fields of political philosophy and constitutionalism.

Covering a period from the late colonial age to World War I and beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of the American South in an international light by establishing useful comparisons with the larger Atlantic and world economy.

Arrow Rock, so named because Native Americans once went there to shape their arrowheads from the flint found along the Missouri River, is a small historic village. Today fewer than one hundred people call Arrow Rock home, but its scenic location and rich history continue to attract thousands of visitors every year.In June 1804, the Corps of Discovery passed "the big arrow rock," as William Clark noted in his journal, "a handsome spot for a town . . . the situation is elegant, commanding and healthy, the land about it fine, well-timbered and watered." Settlers soon arrived, some bringing slaves who developed the large farms; the village that was established grew slowly but saw profits from trade on the river. The beginnings of trade in the far west, the gold rush, and the Civil War all had profound effects on the settlers.Meanwhile, area residents were having an effect on the world. George Caleb Bingham, who became known as the "Missouri artist," participated in the founding of the town and built a home there, and Dr. John Sappington, an early resident of Arrow Rock, saved thousands of lives by perfecting a treatment for malaria. Also calling Arrow Rock home were numerous influential politicians, including three governors, M. M. Marmaduke, Claiborne Fox Jackson, and John Sappington Marmaduke.Life changed after the Civil War, and Arrow Rock changed, too. As railroads and major highways bypassed the town, many people moved away and fewer came through. Arrow Rock provides insight into the progression of history and its effects on one small Missouri town. The story of this village, now a historic site, brings to life the history of America: early days of settlement, an era of prosperity and power for some and incredible hardship for others, wars, a decline, and a rebirth. In addition, the long roll call of those who visited the area provides a history of the opening of the West.This book will prove valuable to those interested in Missouri history; the developing nation; and the geographical, political, and recreational forces that were at work as so many came and went. Like a visit to Arrow Rock itself, this book allows readers to step back into history and appreciate a time when the river was the highway.

In 1911, when Bradley Hogg began his major-league pitching career for the National League's Boston Rustlers, baseball was a different game. Clyde Hogg details the life of baseball's everyman, including excerpts from newspapers throughout the country to bring to life the times in which Bradley Hogg played.

As a companion volume to their earlier book, ""Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History"", Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson's ""Into the Spotlight"" provides the biographies of four more remarkable Missouri women. Sacred Sun, also called Mohongo, Emily Newell Blair, Josephine Baker and. Elizabeth Virginia Wallace.

In Injun Joe's Ghost, Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of ""hybridity"" from a biological to a cultural category.

Focusing on former student radicals at the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University, Lieberman presents a side of history that has been neglected in previous studies. He presents a collection of oral histories of Midwestern student New Left activists from the 1960s.

Russell Kirk has been regarded as one of the foremost figures of the post-World War II revival in conservative thought, yet no analysis of his writing has dealt extensively with the philosophical foundations of his work. W. Wesley McDonald demonstrates their impact on the conservative intellectual movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

This collection of essays by scholars of southern women's history traces the evolution of southern women's lives during the 20th century. Throughout this era, southern life and the opportunities for women changed dramatically as women assumed leadership roles in business, government and education.

This collection of essays is a compendium of Hattaway's writings spanning his career of more than 40 years. He has made many important scholarly contributions to the understanding of the Civil War, including the nature of good (and bad) military leadership.

Here, Philip Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. He also captures the period in his life in which he gradually stopped defining himself in terms of the game.

The letters in this volume are gathered from many sources and include missives sent by Truman to his daughter, his mother and sister, his cousins and of course his wife, Bess. This potpourri of information provides an intimate and revealing portrait of Truman and his remarkable career.

Lewis and Clark's expedition with the Corps of Discovery began in territorial Missouri and this book of computer-generated maps opens a window onto the rivers, land and settlement patterns of the period. It offers a detailed examination of the expedition in Missouri, through a series of 27 maps.

This is a collection inspired by the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The essays assess the ways in which Southern women have claimed power, or ""searched for their places"", and suggests how Southern women, individually and collectively, have sought to empower themselves.

Giselle Roberts examines how the young elite, white, ""Southern Belles"" of Mississippi and Louisiana adapted to the new patriotic vision of womanhood which sprang up during the American Civil War, one that demanded that Confederate women sacrifice their men, homes and fine dresses for their cause.

This is a collection of informal addresses, 18 in all, given by Warren G. Harding as president-elect. The editor has collected them together to show that although Harding spoke of his own time, the addresses are still relevant to America in the 21st century.

Asking how we can discover what representation is, Michael A. Smith focuses on what it is in practice, rather than in theory. Based on interviews and observation of 12 US state representatives, he categorizes their approaches and assesses the nature of representation.

From the exquisite beauty along the Ozark National Scenic Riverways to the whimsical humour of street sculpture in St Louis and Kansas City, to the gleeful faces of children enjoying a fall festival, this collection of photographs attempts to capture the entire breadth of the state of Missouri.

Written by various experts in the field, this volume of 13 original essays explores some of the most significant theoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in English literature.

A collection of short stories set in different places and times, yet all dealing with the same underlying theme: how the imagination, in its infinite variety, seeks to transcend external events. Its subjects include a Jewish boy, a scholarly collector, an old woman, a reporter and a housekeeper.

The heart of professional baseball, if not its roots, may be found in the American Midwest, especially in Missouri. In Seasons in the Sun, Roger D. Launius offers an excellent overview of the teams, pennant races, trials, and triumphs of the different major-league teams that have resided in the state over the years.

Examines the shifts in press coverage of women's executions over the past 150 years. Shipman's use of reconstructed stories, gleaned from hundreds of newspaper articles, aims to give readers an understanding of the ways in which dailies reported on the trials of women.

This work follows the course of the state's history through the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In addition to the political events of the period, the social and economic conditions of the state immediately before, during and after the war are covered here.

James G. Blaine was a leader of the Republican Party and a major shaper of national politics for more than a decade. This biography asserts that Latin America lay at the heart of Blaine's foreign policy and vision for America, and examines seven issues that defined his methods, goals and views.

An analysis of the startling convergence of two events previously treated independently: the emergence of a modern consumer-oriented culture and the rise of the social gospel movement. It examines the lives and works of individuals who identified themselves as ""social gospellers"".

In this collection of stories, Ruth Hamel uses a blend of humour, irony and telling detail to explore the lies that people tell each other - not just the fibs, prevarications and exaggerations, but the deceptions that spring from deliberate silence.