University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
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...
Groping toward Democracy
African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those...
Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies
The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen “the most famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.” Drawing on primary sources, such as maps, census records, court documents, personal letters and periodicals, and the scholarship of others who have analyzed various components of Owen’s...
A French Aristocrat in the American West
The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzières
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In 1790, Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzières gathered his wife and children and fled Revolutionary France. His trek to America was prompted by his “purchase” of two thousand acres situated on the bank of the Ohio River from the Scioto Land Company—the institution that infamously swindled French...
Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS
The Story of How a Book Happened
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015
The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four...
Call Me Tom
The Life of Thomas F. Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Call Me Tom is the first book-length biography of one of Missouri’s most successful senators. A moderate liberal in a conservative state, Thomas F. Eagleton was known for his political independence, integrity, and intelligence, likely the reasons Eagleton never once lost an election in his thirty...
The Final Mission of Bottoms Up
A World War II Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American copilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at...
Hemingway's Wars
Public and Private Battles
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This is a study of the ways various kinds of injury and trauma affected Ernest Hemingway’s life and writing, from the First World War through his suicide in 1961.
Linda Wagner-Martin has written or edited more than sixty books including Ernest Hemingway, A Literary Life. She is Frank Borden...
Few Returned
Twenty-eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1997
After World War II more than one hundred books appeared that dealt with the experience of the Italian army in Russia, and particularly the terrible winter retreat of 1942-1943. Few Returned (I piu' non ritornano) is the only one of these that is still regularly reissued in Italy.
Eugenio Corti,...
John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence
The Hidden Origins of Modern Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2017 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways...
by Sam Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
A New York Times article once stated that “the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, “Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I’m on the front porch, I am...
Amazons
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on a fellowship from Yale at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rain forest; she didn’t realize she would soon have to save herself.
Amazons: A Love Story recounts an idealistic young woman’s coming of age against the backdrop...
by Melvin B. Tolson, Melvin B. Tolson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight...