University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
Friended at the Front
Social Media in the American War Zone
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
For most of us, clicking "like" on social media has become fairly routine. For a Marine, clicking "like" from the battlefield lets his social network know he's alive. This is the first time in the history of modern warfare that US troops have direct, instantaneous connection to...
Holocaust versus Wehrmacht
How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitler's other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest. What began with organized executions carried out by the Einzatsgruppen evolved into systematic genocide, reaching its frenzied final...
African Americans in White Suburbia
Social Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable employment opportunities and political resources—but not necessarily neighbors,...
Federal Ecosystem Management
Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
For the better part of the last century, "preservation" and "multi-use conservation" were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the 1990s, amidst notable failures and overwhelming needs, policymakers, land managers, and environmental scholars were calling...
America's Space Sentinels
The History of the DSP and SBIRS Satellite Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the...
Branding Hoover's FBI
How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Hunting down America’s public enemies was just one of the FBI’s jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the...
Bondarchuk's War and Peace
Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor's War and Peace, Bondarchuk's surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for hearts and minds....
The Making of a Paratrooper
Airborne Training and Combat in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabel—a German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and fought against his former countrymen in the Battle of the Bulge.
Gabel conveys with rare immediacy an in-depth look at the training of a paratrooper,...
by George de Mohrenschildt
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
"Let us hope that this book, poorly written and disjointed, but sincere, will help to clear up our relationship with our dear, dead friend Lee." Thus concludes a largely forgotten manuscript appended to Volume XII of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. "Lee," of course,...
Broken Trust
Dysfunctional Government and Constitutional Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Variously and roundly perceived as gridlocked, incompetent, irresponsible, and corrupt, American government commands less respect and trust today than perhaps at any time in the nation's history. But the dysfunction in government that we like so little, along with the policy disasters it engenders,...
Hopi Runners
Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy...
The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War
Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941-1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts—in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns, conducted between July 1942 and February 1943, proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific, as the advantage definitively...
The Nature of Childhood
An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
When did the kid who strolled the wooded path, trolled the stream, played pick-up ball in the back forty turn into the child confined to the mall and the computer screen? How did "Go out and play!" go from parental shooing to prescription? When did parents become afraid to send their children...
Vietnam's High Ground
Armed Struggle for the Central Highlands, 1954-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
During its struggle for survival from 1954 to 1975, the region known as the Central Highlands was the strategically vital high ground for the South Vietnamese state. Successive South Vietnamese governments, their American allies, and their Communist enemies all realized early on the fundamental importance...