University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books

Vietnam

The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975

by John Prados
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

Henry Adams Prize The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy. While most people—liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, historians, pundits, and citizens alike—agree that the United States did not win the war, a vocal minority argue the opposite or debate...

Lou Henry Hoover

Activist First Lady

by Nancy Beck Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

Although overshadowed by her higher-profile successors, Lou Henry Hoover was in many ways the nation’s first truly modern First Lady. She was the first to speak on the radio and give regular interviews. She was the first to be a public political persona in her own right. And, although the White...

Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

Text and Tradition

by Ralph A. Rossum
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalia’s entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v. Heller, his dissent in the Obamacare cases of NFIB v. Sebelius and King v. Burwell, his important recess appointments...

The Santa Fe Trail

Its History, Legends, and Lore

by David Dary
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012

A prize-winning historian of the Old West brings to life the people who laid down the Santa Fe Trail and opened commerce with Spanish America. He uses first-hand accounts and contemporary records to give us a vivid recreation of a time and place crucial to America's westward expansion.

The First Presidential Contest

1796 and the Founding of American Democracy

by Jeffrey L. Pasley
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016

This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar—parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the political mores of the day forbade it). Yet for all...

President Obama

Constitutional Aspirations and Executive Actions

by Louis Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles. In particular, he objected to George W. Bush’s claim to certain “inherent” presidential powers that could not be checked by Congress or the judiciary. After his inauguration, how did President Obama’s constitutional...

Father of Liberty

Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution

by Patrick Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017

Dr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was, according to John Adams, a “transcendental genius . . . who threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of the country in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death.” He was also, J. Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically...

Pesticides, A Love Story

America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals

by Michelle Mart
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015

“Presto! No More Pests!” proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn’t love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did—and apparently still do. Why—in the...

Leak

Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat

by Max Holland
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

Through the shadowy persona of "Deep Throat," FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his "leaks" helped uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook's portrayal in the film version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men, Felt was regarded...

The Hunter Elite

Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925

by Tara Kathleen Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press...

Moms in Chief

The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992–2016

by Tammy R. Vigil
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019

In 1776, when Abigail Adams implored her husband to "Remember the Ladies," John Adams scoffed, declaring, "We know better than to repeal our masculine system." More than two hundred years later, American women continue to struggle against the idea that they are simply vassal extensions...

The Presidents and the Poor

America Battles Poverty, 1964-2017

by Lawrence J. McAndrews
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018

Declaring a War on Poverty in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaimed: “We shall not rest until that war is won.” Since then, nine presidents have come and gone, each taking up the campaign in his own way—but the poor are still here. While all of these presidents have helped produce...

Barbara Bush

Presidential Matriarch

by Myra G. Gutin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

Wife of one president and mother of another, Barbara Bush was an outspoken first lady who looked more like her constituents than did her predecessors. A White House resident for only four years, she nevertheless became and remains one of the most admired women in the world. This new look at...

Spies in the Himalayas

Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs

by Mohan S. Kohli, Kenneth Conboy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019

In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both justifiably concerned....
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