The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
The Marxist and the Movies
A Biography of Paul Jarrico
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
As part of its effort to expose Communist infiltration in the United States and eliminate Communist influence on movies, from 1947--1953 the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed hundreds of movie industry employees suspected of membership in the Communist Party. Most of them, including...
A Life for Freedom
The Mission to End Racial Injustice in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned -- and renounced -- as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and...
Hoax
Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination...
The First Cold Warrior
Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
From the first days of his unexpected presidency in April 1945 through the landmark NSC 68 of 1950, Harry Truman was central to the formation of America's grand strategy during the Cold War and the subsequent remaking of U.S. foreign policy. Others are frequently associated with the terminology of...
Lincoln Legends
Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry...
Vietnam's Second Front
Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations -- such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering -- are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war.
In Vietnam's...
Jewish Communities on the Ohio River
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
When westward expansion began in the early nineteenth century, the Jewish population of the United States was only 2,500. As Jewish immigration surged over the century between 1820 and 1920, Jews began to find homes in the Ohio River Valley. In Jewish Communities on the Ohio River, Amy Hill Shevitz...
James and Esther Cooper Jackson
Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
James Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson grew up understanding that opportunities came differently for blacks and whites, men and women, rich and poor. In turn, they devoted their lives to the fight for equality, serving as career activists throughout the black freedom movement. Having grown up in...
by Robert G. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, shattered the prevalent optimism in the United States that had blossomed during the tranquil and prosperous 1990s, when democracy seemed triumphant and catastrophic wars were a relic of the past. President George W. Bush responded with a bold and controversial...
After the Dream
Black and White Southerners since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech,...
Losing the Center
The Decline of American Liberalism, 1968--1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Many Americans consider John F. Kennedy's presidency to represent the apex of American liberalism. Kennedy's "Vital Center" blueprint united middle-class and working-class Democrats and promoted freedom abroad while recognizing the limits of American power. Liberalism thrived in the early...
Cowboy Conservatism
Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Despite its century-long heritage of solidly Democratic politics, the state became a Republican stronghold virtually overnight, and by 1980 it was known as "Reagan Country." Ultimately, Republicans dominated...
Hitler's Generals in America
Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the American POW experience in Nazi camps. Less is...