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by Kat Snider Blackbird
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
“Kat Snider Blackbird gives us all these in her intense and passionate poems. She is a woman—and Woman—in love, in lust, and deeply in life. In her work, women will see themselves on all levels of being and men will at last be allowed to penetrate the mysteries of the women they love.”—Grace Butcher
Snow Hill
In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A fascinating exploration of a now-lost communal society
During the first half of the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania became home to a variety of German-speaking sectarians who rebelled against the oppression of European state-church establishments and migrated to the United States to form...
David Zeisberger
A Life among the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
"Detailed research and thoughtful insights make David Zeisberger: A Life among the Indians a valuable study of Indian-Colonist relations in eighteenth-century British North America. Judicious in approach and compassionate without being polemical or sentimental, Olmstead brings to life the story...
NATO after Sixty Years
A Stable Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Experts analyze NATO’s successes
NATO after Sixty Yearsaddresses the challenges of adaptation confronting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the early twenty-first century. Comprised of essays from a range of experts, each chapter examines an aspect of NATO’s difficult adjustment...
Forging the "Bee Line" Railroad, 1848-1889
The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a link to East Coast economic markets whetted the appetites of visionaries and entrepreneurs, who saw...
Whatever's Fair
The Political Autobiography of Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The autobiography of a legendary Ohio politician and legislator
“The politics that Vern describes—when candidates depended on shaking hands, speaking at every conceivable dinner, passing out literature at the county fair (or fairs, if you were running statewide), and when office-holders...
Caution and Cooperation
The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy
Click here to read a review from The British Scholar
“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly...
Bushwhackers
Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house-...
Framing Elizabethan Fictions
Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Literary historians have been giving increased attention to texts that have hitherto been largely ignored. The works of women, the disenfranchised, and “commoners” have all benefited from such critical analysis. Similarly, letters, memoirs, popular poetry, and serialized fiction have become the...
Classic Steelers
The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Steelers History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had quarterbacked the squad at Duquesne University, purchased a team for Pittsburgh for $2,500. Thus began the legacy we know as “Steeler Nation.”
At...
Child of the Sit-Downs
The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
ForeWord Magazine 2008 Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Biography!
A biography of a prominent labor reformer and early feminist
Strikes affect entire communities, and in the end they need the communities’ support to succeed. This was exemplified in the legendary 1937 sit-down...
by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book of the Year 1996.” This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding...
A Singing Ambivalence
American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans—responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group’s songs reveal...
by Steven Florczyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Ernest Hemingway’s initiation into war
Ernest Hemingway’s enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life, and it provided much of the source material for A Farewell to Arms and his writings about Italy and the Great War. As...