University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
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 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...
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...
In Search of the Talented Tenth
Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
From the 1920s through the 1970s, Howard University was home to America’s most renowned assemblage of black scholars. This book traces some of the personal and professional activities of this community of public intellectuals, demonstrating their scholar-activist nature and the myriad ways they...
From Little Houses to Little Women
Revisiting a Literary Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a mental and spiritual journey as well. This distinction is what separates Nancy McCabe’s From Little Houses to Little Women from the typical and allows...
Words Matter
Writing to Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Newspapers and magazines have been steadily shrinking, and more and more former subscribers have gone to digital and internet sources for the news. Yet it has become increasingly clear that “short takes” don’t satisfy many readers, who still long for nuanced, long form journalism. By providing...
Dirt, Sweat, and Diesel
A Family Farm in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
With very few people engaged in agriculture today, it is no surprise that most Americans have little understanding of the challenges that modern farmers face. This book provides readers a glimpse into life on a modern Missouri farm where a variety of grains, grass seed, corn, and cattle are produced....
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...