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Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering tell the stories of women from all across Europe who left the Old World for Missouri. Drawing heavily on the women's own stories, the book illustrates common elements of their lives without minimizing the diversity and complexity of each individual's experience.

The 43th volume of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin consists of Voegelin's Autobiographical Reflections, reprinted from the 1989 edition with additional annotations; a glossary of terms used in Voegelin's writings, illustrated with examples from throughout the Collected Works; a volume index; and a cumulative index.

Paul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), one of America's greatest 19th-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham's artistic achievements, he also portrays another and very important part of the artist's career - his service as a statesman and political leader in Missouri.

These essays endeavor to generate a dialogue between Eric Voegelin and other 20th-century thinkers and explore issues in contemporary political theory. Each essay rests on the underlying question: is it possible or desirable to construct or discover political foundations without resorting to metaphysical or essentialist constructs?

Focusing on social, economic, and political life, volume IV of History of Missouri provides an in-depth analysis of both rural Missouri and urban development during a time of rapid growth and change in the state.

Missouri's mineral springs and resorts played a vital role in the social and economic development of the state. Loring Bullard delves into the long history of these springs and spas, concentrating particularly on the use and development of the mineral springs from 1800 to about the 1930s.

Charlie Farmer, provides the reader with some tips for making the most of the four major outdoor nature activities that are available in Missouri. He also shares many of the fascinating adventures he has had during a lifetime of participating in his favorite pastimes.

Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains a major figures in American political thought, many of his critics consider him merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., presents Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a ""proper mode of popular rule.

This second volume of Eric Voegelin's miscellaneous papers contains unpublished writings from the time of his forced emigration from Austria in 1938 until his death in 1985. The volume's focus is on dialogue and discussion, presenting Voegelin in the role of lecturer, discussant, and respondent.

The final volume of ""A History of Missouri"". Beginning at the close of the Truman presidency and ending in 2003, the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase agreement and of the organization of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Volume VI explains how modern Missouri bridged the years between the mid-twentieth century and the new millennium.

Created as a companion for the fourth-grade textbook ""Missouri Then and Now"" by Perry McCandless and William E. Foley, this workbook provides students additional insight into Missouri's rich history with cognitive activities and writing assignments.

A collection of essays surveying the history of women in the state of Missouri from the period of colonial settlement through the mid-20th century.

An exploration of the contribution that the state of Missouri has made to American naval history, using the ships that were named after the state, the cities of Missouri and its citizens.

This is an overview and summary of the role W.E.B. Du Bois played in the struggle for equal rights for African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.

In the thirteen stories of Pale Morning Dun, Richard Dokey endeavors to suggest common truths that uncover the human reality at any time, in any place. He explores the ephemeral nature of life through an assembly of characters as diverse as the settings they inhabit. The characters' struggles reveal universal truths about human nature

In this sequel to ""Few Returned"", Eugenio Corti continues his poignant account of his experiences as an Italian soldier in World War II. In 1943, after repeated military defeats, Mussolini was forced to resign and Italy joined the Allies. In this text, Corti recounts his experiences of those days.

Symbols have always had important roles, and each US state has developed its own seals, flags and emblems, but how did they come to be chosen? John C. Fisher provides an answer to this question for Missourians with a handy reference on the various official symbols of state.

One of two volumes which bring together Voegelin's miscellaneous papers, this text gathers crucial writings from the early formative period of this scholar's thought. It begins with Voegelin's dissertation on sociological method, which he completed in 1922.

Bringing together material from James A. Rawley's three decades of work, this volume depicts the slave trade from 1700 to the American Civil War. It considers the role of London in the trade, and focuses on a number of important figures in the slave industry, including Humphry Morice.

This collection explores the lives of African-American characters against the ever-present backdrop of race, but with the myriad complexities of individual minds and souls in the foreground.

Based in the same locale as Mark Twain's tales of Tom Sawyer in Hannibal, Missouri, Ilasco was an industrial town created to serve the purposes of the Atlas Portland Cement Company. Andrews relates the story of the exploitation and the eventual destruction of the town.

Part of ""The Collected Works of Langston Hughes"" series, this volume features his essays, from his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished ""Black Writers in a Troubled World"".

Jesse B. Simple sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly ""Chicago Defender"" column in 1943. This is an examination of Hughes's ""Simple stories"". Through the conversations between Simple and his foil, Boyd, Hughes makes clear that both are alike - black men in a racially unbalanced society.

This work aims to meet the instructional needs of classrooms. It incorporates geography, civics, economics, anthropology, and sociology with history to give students a chance to learn about their world on several different levels.

This volume examines the autobiographies of 19th-century African American women evangelists, along with their 18th-century forerunner Belinda. It studies how black women evangelists employed dialogue created by socioeconomic conditions.

Using recently declassified documents from Spain and the United States, personal interviews and unpublished and published Spanish, German, British and US records, this work seeks to make a significant contribution to the understanding of Hispano-German relations during the 1930s and 1940s.

A History of Missouri, 1820 to 1860 covers the years of Missouri's adolescence - from statehood to the outset of the Civil War.

This volume includes essays by Russian scholars who have examined the history of American political parties and the role they played in American history. The dialogue is then developed through commentaries by American historians and through counter-responses by the Russian authors.

Harry S. Truman made plain speaking his trademark and it was a common belief that he spared few words. However, this collection of letters that he never mailed seeks to prove that conception wrong. Addressed to admirers and enemies alike, they cover subjects such as the atomic bomb and human greed.