University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
The Forgotten Generation
American Children and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio, saying, “We are all in it—all the way. Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.” So began a continuing theme of the World War II years:...
by Lisa L. Ossian
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call...
Dick Cole’s War
Doolittle Raider, Hump Pilot, Air Commando
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
With the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7, 2015 Dick Cole has long stood in the powerful spotlight of fame that has followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In recognition the tremendous boost...
J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City
Innovation in Planned Residential Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Born and reared on the outskirts of Kansas City in Olathe, Kansas, Jesse Clyde Nichols (1880-1950) was a creative genius in land development. He grew up witnessing the cycles of development and decline characteristics of Kansas City and other American cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Southern Frontier Humor
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of...
From Oligarchy to Republicanism
The Great Task of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the Republicans...
Not So Simple
The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories.
Harper...
by Donna L. Potts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and...
From SWEETBACK to SUPER FLY
Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Americans. In From Sweetback to Super Fly, Gerald Buttersexamines the movie theaters in Chicago’s Loop that became, as he describes them, “black spaces”...
The Power of Two
A Twin Triumph over Cystic Fibrosis, Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For most people, a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis means the certainty of a life ended too soon. But for Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and Anabel Stenzel, twin girls with the disease, what began as a family’s stubborn determination grew into a miracle.
The tragedy of CF has been touchingly recounted...
Demon of the Lost Cause
Sherman and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of...
Bugle Resounding
Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
In the mid-nineteenth century the United States was musically vibrant. Rising industrialization, a growing middle class, and increasing concern for the founding of American centers of art created a culture that was rich in musical capital. Beyond its importance to the people who created and played...
Ethical Communication
Moral Stances in Human Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces students and practitioners to important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to...
Byline, Richard Wright
Articles from the DAILY WORKER and NEW MASSES
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A writer perhaps best known for the revolutionary works Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright also worked as a journalist during one of the most explosive periods of the 20th century. From 1937 to 1938, Wright turned out more than two hundred articles for the Daily Worker, the newspaper that served...