University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
The People of the River's Mouth
In Search of the Missouria Indians
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River—the waterway we know as the Missouri. This Indian nation called itself the Nyut^achi, which translates to “People of the River Mouth,” and had been a dominant force in the...
Jessie Benton Frémont
Missouri's Trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
When Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, one of Missouri’s first two senators and the great-uncle of the famous regionalist painter of the same name, was expecting his second child in 1824, he hoped it would be a boy. Although he was graced instead with a second girl, he named her Jessie (in honor of his father,...
Lanford Wilson
Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley’s Folly, and Burn This, he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s, small-town Missouri where he grew up. This...
Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson
A Diary, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In the summer of 1930, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, a graduate of Howard University and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, became a book agent for the man with the undisputed title of "Father of Negro History," Carter G. Woodson. With little more than determination, Greene, along with...
A Second Home
Missouri's Early Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier.
A Second Home offers an in-depth and entertaining...
Collapse at Meuse-Argonne
The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2004
During World War I, the Thirty-fifth Division was made up of National Guard units from Missouri and Kansas. Composed of thousands of men from the two states, the Missouri-Kansas Division entered the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne with no battle experience and only a small amount of training, a...
The Eric Voegelin Reader
Politics, History, Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
By the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler’s regime and made his way to the United States in 1938, he had already written four books criticizing Nazi racism, establishing what would be the focus of his life’s work: to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century. One of the...
On Shaky Ground
The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Although most Americans associate earthquakes with California, the tremors that shook the Mississippi valley in southeast Missouri from December 16, 1811, through February 7, 1812, are among the most violent quakes to hit the North American continent in recorded history. Collectively known as the...
Deep River
A Memoir of a Missouri Farm
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Deep River uncovers the layers of history—both personal and regional—that have accumulated on a river-bottom farm in west-central Missouri. This land was part of a late frontier, passed over, then developed through the middle of the last century as the author's father and uncle cleared a portion...
by R. Douglas Hurt
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2000
Celebrated as one of America's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. Nathan Boone, the youngest of Daniel's sons, played a vital role in American pioneering, following in much the same steps as his famous father. In Nathan...
Prairie Power
Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
Prairie Power, a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s, focuses on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of midwestern New Left activists that has been neglected in previous studies.
Scholarship...
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Woman behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder’s years in Missouri...
by Hilary Iris Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
A century after Samuel Clemens’s death, Mark Twain thrives—his recently released autobiography topped bestseller lists. One way fans still celebrate the first true American writer and his work is by visiting any number of Mark Twain destinations. They believe they can learn something unique by...
The Foundation of the CIA
Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late...