University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
America's Deadliest Battle
Meuse-Argonne, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
American fighting men had never seen the likes of it before
The great battle of the Meuse-Argonne was the costliest conflict in American history, with 26,000 men killed and tens of thousands wounded. Involving 1.2 million American troops over 47 days, it ended on November 11—what we now know...
Four Hats in the Ring
The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
**Choice Outstanding Title
Imagine a presidential election with four well-qualified and distinguished candidates and a serious debate over the future of the nation! Sound impossible in this era of attack ads and strident partisanship? It happened nearly a century ago in 1912, when incumbent Republican...
by Robert Shogan
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice president....
Marshall and His Generals
U.S. Army Commanders in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals to carry out American grand strategy. Marshall and His Generals is the first and only book to focus...
Honoring the Civil War Dead
Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
By the end of the Civil War, fatalities from that conflict had far exceeded previous American experience, devastating families and communities alike. As John Neff shows, commemorating the 620,000 lives lost proved to be a persistent obstacle to the hard work of reuniting the nation, as every memorial...
The Great Yazoo Lands Sale
The Case of Fletcher v. Peck
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state’s western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave rise to...
Imagining Tombstone
The Town Too Tough to Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
When prospector “Ed” Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all he’d find would be his own tombstone. What he did discover, of course, was one of the richest veins of silver in the West—a strike he wryly called Tombstone. Briefly a boomtown, in...
The Red Army and the Great Terror
Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin. There followed a massive...
Nixon's Nuclear Specter
The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2015
In their initial effort to end the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to lever concessions from Hanoi at the negotiating table with military force and coercive diplomacy. They were not seeking military victory, which they did not believe was feasible. Instead, they backed up...
by Douglas E. Litowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The legal system is often denounced as “Kafkaesque”—but what does this really mean? This is the question Douglas E. Litowitz tackles in his critical reading of Franz Kafka’s writings about the law.
Going far beyond Kafka’s most familiar works—such as The Trial—Litowitz assembles...
by Kate Elizabeth Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans. Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American...
by Clement Fatovic
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality is the longest running war in American history. To defenders of the status quo, who argue that the accumulation of wealth free of government intervention is an essential...
Empire of the People
Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...
Pershing's Crusaders
The American Soldier in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation’s history. At the moment of the Republic’s emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign...