University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
Entering the Fray
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white...
by Johannes Morsink
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Repulsed by evil Nazi practices and desiring to create a better world after the devastation of World War II, in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Because of the secular imprint of this text, it has faced a series of challenges from the world’s...
Communities of Death
Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
To 21st century readers, 19th century depictions of death look macabre if not maudlin—the mourning portraits and quilts, the postmortem daguerreotypes, and the memorial jewelry now hopelessly, if not morbidly, distressing. Yet this sentimental culture of mourning and memorializing provided opportunities...
by Jo Ann Trogdon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In 1798—more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes—William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him...
Thyra J. Edwards
Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In 1938, a black newspaper in Houston paid front-page tribute to Thyra J. Edwards as the embodiment of “The Spirit of Aframerican Womanhood.” Edwards was a world lecturer, journalist, social worker, labor organizer, women’s rights advocate, and civil rights activist—an undeniably important...
Bataan Survivor
A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
A forgotten account, written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, which vividly portrays the valor, sacrifice, suffering, and liberation of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of one survivor.
The personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee, first drafted at sea from...
A Red Boyhood
Growing Up Under Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Many children growing up in the Soviet Union before World War II knew the meaning of deprivation and dread. But for the son of an “enemy of the people,” those apprehensions were especially compounded.
When the secret police came for his father in 1938, ten-year-old Anatole Konstantin saw...
Rethinking Rights
Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
As reports of genocide, terrorism, and political violence fill today’s newscasts, more attention has been given to issues of human rights—but all too often the sound bites seem overly simplistic. Many Westerners presume that non-Western peoples yearn for democratic rights, while liberal values...
Alcatraz Screw
My Years as a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. Following his training, he was sent to the federal prison...
by Tom Quirk
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment—and...
by Grant N. Havers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
America has seen faith-based initiatives and “the audacity of hope” in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of “loving thy neighbor as thyself,”...
by Joyce A. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles....
Prairie Sky
A Pilot's Reflections on Flying and the Grace of Altitude
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
“It’s almost like ballet. Preflight. Starting. Warm-up. The voices from the control tower—the instructions. Taxiing. The rush down the runway. Airborne. There are names for every move. The run-up. Position and hold. Every move needs to be learned, practiced, made so familiar you feel the patterns...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2002
When E. Franklin Frazier was elected the first black president of the American Sociological Association in 1948, he was established as the leading American scholar on the black family and was also recognized as a leading theorist on the dynamics of social change and race relations. By 1948 his lengthy...