University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer
The Army PX in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Veterans of World War II have long sung the praises of the PX—a little piece of home in far-flung corners of the world. Though many books on that war tell of combat operations and logistics in detail, this is the first to tell the full story of the Army Exchange System.
The AES was dedicated...
Aristocracy in America
From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between...
by Ellis Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life, Tocqueville’s nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping America is largely overlooked today. Now, in Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Ellis Sandoz reveals the major role that Protestant Christianity played...
The Fishing Creek Confederacy
A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Media Kit
One hundred fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States. However, most Americans forget that he was elected with only 40 percent of the popular vote. Many Democratic newspapers across...
Nixon's First Cover-up
The Religious Life of a Quaker President
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Have you ever thought you completely knew a story, inside and out, only to see some new information that shatters what you had come to accept as unquestioned fact? Well, Richard Nixon is that story, and Nixon’s First Cover-up is that new information.
With few exceptions, the religious ideologies...
Colonization After Emancipation
Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
History has long acknowledged that President Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, had considered other approaches to rectifying the problem of slavery during his administration. Prior to Emancipation, Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to another...
by Nicholas Trajano Molnar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the Philippines after it was colonized by the United States, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding observers who debated where they fit into the racial...
Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge
A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was “going home.” Part travelogue,...
The Patience of Pearl
Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the “discarnate entity” Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan. Though now virtually forgotten, her writing garnered both critical praise and public popularity at...
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt
Toward a Secular Theocracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried’s examination of Western managerial government’s growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike...
Politics Reformed
The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Many studies have considered the Bible’s relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics...
America's First Olympics
The St. Louis Games of 1904
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
America in 1904 was a nation bristling with energy and confidence. Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s young, spirited, and athletic president, a sports mania rampaged across the country. Eager to celebrate its history, and to display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the...
by Wayne H. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Well-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of U.S. policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time.
President Harry S. Truman harbored an abiding...
Sin in the City
Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Long before today’s culture wars, the “Third Great Awakening” rocked America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday roused citizens to renounce sin as it manifested in popular culture, moral ambiguity, and the changing...