University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
Gibson's Last Stand
The Rise, Fall, and Near Misses of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1969-1975
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
During star-pitcher Bob Gibson’s most brilliant season, the turbulent summer of 1968, he started thirty-four games and pitched every inning in twenty-eight of them, shutting out the opponents in almost half of those complete games. After their record-breaking season, Gibson and his teammates...
by Paul W. Barrett, Mary H. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
On January 2, 1932, near Springfield, Missouri, ten poorly armed law enforcement officers set out to arrest two local farm boys for auto theft. A few minutes later, six of the officers lay dead and three were wounded, setting a record that stands to this day for the greatest number of police officers...
Faces Like Devils
The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In the twenty-first century, the word vigilante usually conjures up images of cinematic heroes like Batman, Zorro, the Lone Ranger, or Clint Eastwood in just about any film he’s ever been in. But in the nineteenth century, vigilantes roamed the country long before they ever made their way onto the...
Thomas Ewing Jr.
Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history—including William...
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows...
The Opinions of Mankind
Racial Issues, Press, and Progaganda in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
During the Cold War, the Soviets were quick to publicize any incident of racial hostility in the United States. Since violence by white Americans against minorities was the perfect foil to America’s claim to be defenders of freedom, news of these occurrences was exploited to full advantage by the...
An Irish-American Odyssey
The Remarkable Rise of the O'Shaughnessy Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The O’Shaughnessy brothers’ story takes place between 1860 and 1950 in Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Ireland. They were the children of an impoverished immigrant who fled the famine in Ireland and his Irish-American wife.***An Irish-American Odyssey***is the tale of this first-generation immigrant...
Chronicles of a Two-Front War
Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war...
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist
Writings from the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Before Laura Ingalls Wilder found fame with her Little House books, she made a name for herself with short nonfiction pieces in magazines and newspapers. Read today, these pieces offer insight into her development as a writer and depict farm life in the Ozarks—and also show us a different Laura...
The Life of Mark Twain
The Early Years, 1835-1871
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens’s life, because the...
Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers
Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle...
Harry S. Truman
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Few U.S. presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman, “the man from Missouri.”
In this major new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a...
Searching for Jim
Slavery in Sam Clemens's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Searching for Jim is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens’s remarks to the contrary in his autobiography, slavery was very much a part of his life. Dempsey has uncovered a wealth of newspaper accounts and archival material revealing that Clemens’s...
George Washington Carver
In His Own Words, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to southern farmers. This annotated selection of his letters and other writings from the collections at the Tuskegee Institute and the George Washington Carver...