University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
by Stephen R. Taaffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
During the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men. Collectively charged with leading the Union's most significant field army, these leaders proved their courage in countless...
American Organic
A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In 1947, when J. I. Rodale, editor of Organic Gardening, declared, "the Revolution has begun," a mere 60,000 readers and a ragtag army of followers rallied to the cause, touting the benefits of food grown with all-natural humus. More than a half century later, organic farming is part of...
The JFK Assassination Debates
Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
Who killed JFK? Ever since that fateful day in Dallas, theories about President Kennedy's murder have proliferated, running the gamut from the official "lone gunman" verdict to both serious and utterly screwball conspiracy theories. Michael Kurtz, a distinguished historian who has plumbed...
Reagan's Victory
The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Many have pointed to the Iran hostage crisis, others to galloping inflation. In reality, as Andrew Busch makes clear, Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was attributable to more than any one issue, no matter how galvanizing. It marked the growing ascendancy of conservative attitudes...
Liberty and Union
The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this ambitious and elegant overview of the Civil War era. The book integrates political, military, and social developments into an epic narrative interwoven...
Indian-Made
Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
**Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
New Mexico Book Award**
In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural...
From Greenwich Village to Taos
Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
They all came to Taos: Georgia O'Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 and 1929 to join the community that art patron Mabel Dodge created in her Taos salon and to draw...
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary
At the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1: April 1861-July 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterrupted, four-year chronicle by a mature, keenly observant clerk in the War Department of the Confederacy, the wartime diary of John Beauchamp Jones was...
Dominion of Bears
Living with Wildlife in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side.
As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between...
American Serengeti
The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes,...
Plessy v. Ferguson
Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly...
The Case for Gay Rights
From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, David Richards, a widely respected legal scholar and long-time champion of gay rights, reflects upon the constitutional and...
In Deadly Combat
A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2000
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years recaptures the sights, sounds, and smells of the war as it vividly portrays an army marching on the road to ruin.
A...
Stopping the Panzers
The Untold Story of D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly—if at all—as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. As both the Allies and the Germans knew, only Germany's Panzers could crush Overlord in its tracks. The Canadians'...