University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
Bully Nation
How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
It's not just the bully in the schoolyard that we should be worried about. The one-on-one bullying that dominates the national conversation, this timely book suggests, is actually part of a larger problem—a natural outcome of the bullying nature of our national institutions. And as long as the United...
by Thomas E. Bullard
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
When United Airlines workers reported a UFO at O'Hare Airport in November 2006, it was met with the typical denials and hush-up that usually accompany such sightings. But when a related story broke the record for hits at the Chicago Tribune's website, it was clear that such unexplained objects continued...
Victors in Blue
How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most important, the generals. Although the South had arguably the best commander in the Civil War in Robert E. Lee, the North's full house beat their one-of-a-kind. Flawed...
Electing FDR
The New Deal Campaign of 1932
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
George Pendleton Prize
With the landmark election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, decades of Republican ascendancy gave way to a half century of Democratic dominance. It was nothing less than a major political realignment, as the direction of federal policy shifted from conservative to...
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War
The War Nobody Knew
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker’s...
Punitive War
Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Through widespread and relentless surprise attacks and ambushes, Confederate guerrillas drove Union soldiers and their leaders to desperation. Confederate cavalrymen engaged in hit-and-run tactics; autonomous partisan rangers preyed on Federal railroads, telegraph lines, and supply wagons; and civilian...
From Victory to Stalemate
The Western Front, Summer 1944?Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first the Western then Eastern Front, respected military...
Fighting Means Killing
Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared.
The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first...
First Ladies and American Women
In Politics and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Unelected, but expected to act as befits her “office,” the first lady has what Pat Nixon called “the hardest unpaid job in the world.” Michelle Obama championed military families with the program Joining Forces. Four decades earlier Pat Nixon traveled to Africa as the nation’s official representative....
The One-Party Presidential Contest
Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
The election of 1824 is commonly viewed as a mildly interesting contest involving several colorful personalities—John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and William H. Crawford—that established Old Hickory as the people's choice and yet, through "bargain and corruption,"...
Bill Clinton
New Gilded Age President
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: “There is no other period in the nation’s history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands of the industrial entrepreneur.” The era of...
Minority Victory
Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zealously in the political process. Although they faced a choice between two uncharismatic candidates—Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison and Democratic...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential crisis as the nation's demographics shift away from its core constituents—older white middle-class Christians. It is the American conservatism that we don’t know that concerns George Hawley in this book. During its ascendancy,...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Creating the Modern First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Few first ladies have enjoyed a better reputation among historians than Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Aristocratic and sophisticated, tasteful and discreet, she managed the White House with a sure hand. Her admirers say that she never slipped in carrying out her duties as hostess, mother, and adviser to...