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Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929

Diplomacy in the Progressive Era

by James C. Knarr
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011

A comprehensive history of the relationship between the United States and reformist Uruguay Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestled in the corner of South America between Argentina and Brazil, is scant when compared to that...
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by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) is one of the most important and highly respected figures in the history of geology. This in-depth biography documents his career and life from birth to retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. With...
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Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique

From the Old South to the New South and Beyond

by William E. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) rose to great heights as a newspaper publisher, political leader, and ambassador, but his life is surrounded by controversy to this day. Charges that he contributed to the death of his second wife, an heiress whose bequest of five million dollars helped purchase the...
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White Coats

Three Journeys through an American Medical School

by Jacqueline Marino
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

Although we rely on physicians, calling on them at birth and death and every medical event in between, rarely do we consider the personal challenges faced by doctors-to-be. In 2005 author Jacqueline Marino and photojournalist Tim Harrison had the unprecedented opportunity to chronicle the experiences...
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by Mary E. Weems
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

“Energy, dynamic energy emanates from Mary Weems’ careful, observing eyes into her language. These poems offer immediacy, intelligent response, and rich repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.”—Diane Wakoski
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The Boy General

The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow

by Richard F. Welch
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

The biography of an ambitious Civil War soldier Drawing heavily on primary-source material, The Boy General is the first full-length account of Francis Channing Barlow, one of the most successful combat officers in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Although his clean-shaven,...
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Requiem for Revolution

The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969

by Ruth Leacock
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

“Let us once again transform the American continent into a vast crucible of revolutionary ideas and efforts…” urged President John F. Kennedy on March 13, 1961.  “Let us once again awaken our American revolution until it guides the struggle of people everywhere—not with an imperialism of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011

The return of popular nineteenth-century short stories of the early American frontier “James Hall was part of a literary scene in Cincinnati and in Illinois at the same time as Hawthorne and Irving were publishing short stories in New York and Boston. Middle Westerners should be delighted...
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The Bones of the Others

The Hemingway Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels

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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

“There is no work that competes with this. . . . Every chapter is fresh—and always interesting. The Bones of the Others is a strikingly contemporary way to approach this never-dated modernist. Justice shows how Hemingway got where he was trying to go, perhaps even before he knew the direction...
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by Robert Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994

Sleepwalking with Mayakovsky is a collection of poems that explores the relationship between chaos and order.“Robert Brown extends a tradition that unites reasons and passion, form and wit, history and memory.  These often wry and always thoughtful poems are less acts than dances of the mind, as elegant as they are intelligent.”—William Greenway
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New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier

Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio

by Virginia E. McCormick, Robert W. McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

Travelers in Worthington, Ohio, might think they were in a New England town. Old brick buildings line the very edges of the sidewalk, and a picturesque village green is flanked by two church steeples. Like most frontier communities, it reflects the heritage of its founders. In New Englanders on the...
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The Sage of Tawawa

Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959

by Annetta Gomez-Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

In The Sage of Tawawa, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction. Educated at Wilberforce University in Ohio (after losing his scholarship from Oberlin College for protesting the segregation of the...
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Building the St. Helena II

Rebirth of a Nineteenth-Century Canal Boat

by Carroll Gantz
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012

Building the St. Helena II tells the story of the 1970 reconstruction of an authentic, operational 1825 canal boat. The narrative unfolds in the small village of Canal Fulton, Ohio, along the surviving one- mile section of the 333-mile Ohio & Erie Canal, which in the 1820s connected the new nation’s...
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by James M. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city’s nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960s Winsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described “effeminate young man,” French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, enduring his colleagues’ homophobia and...
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