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Bloody Dawn

The Story of the Lawrence Massacre

by Thomas Goodrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill’s command, the horrors of that...

Rhetorical Drag

Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History

by Lorrayne Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literature In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of...

Melville as Poet

The Art of Pulsed Life

by Sanford E. Marovitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Herman Melville’s literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rendering of...

Dispatches From Bermuda

The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1868

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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen's post became one of vital importance to the United States as this British colony became a center for Confederate blockade-running activities....

Pattern of Circles

An Ambassador's Story

by John E. Dolibois
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996

Pattern of Circles is a success story, for its author and his country. John E. Dolibois was born December 4, 1918, in Luxembourg. His mother died weeks later, and he was raised by an older sister until she left for Akron, Ohio, with her American husband. In 1931 John came to Akron with his father...

There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale

More Essays on Tolkien

by Verlyn Flieger
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017

Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that make that world the special...

C. S. Lewis's Perelandra

Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra—the second volume of Lewis’s “Space Trilogy”—is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra:...

Sundays in the Pound

The Heroics and Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns

by Jonathan Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

The essential guide to every game in Browns history Every Sunday in autumn, a new chapter is written in the long and storied history of the Cleveland Browns. Win or lose, with each contest, the mythos of this beloved franchise is extended and enriched in the hearts of the sport’s most loyal...

Classic Browns

The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Browns History - Second Edition, Revised and Updated

by Jonathan Knight
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015

This revised and updated edition of Classic Browns counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Browns games, from unexpected upsets to incredible comebacks to titanic championship battles. Knight ranks heartbreakers like The Fumble and The Drive alongside championship duels and epic confrontations with...
by Michael J. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Michael J. McManus’s study of political abolitionism in Wisconsin demonstrates the overriding importance of slavery-related issues in bringing on the political crisis of the 1850s and the American Civil War. In the years prior to the war, the political struggle to free enslaved blacks and block...

Hunting the Unicorn

A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter

by Don W. King
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008

A significant poet in her own right, Ruth Pitter has long deserved this biography, which thoughtfully assesses her place in the British poetic landscape. Popular in the United Kingdom from the early 1930s until her death in 1992, Pitter won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1937 for A Trophy...
by Doris T. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

Although C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) achieved a level of popularity as a fiction writer, literary scholars have tended to view him as a minor figure working in an insignificant genre-science fiction-or have pigeonholed him as a Christian apologist and moralist. In C. S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers...

Modernizing the American War Department

Change and Continuity in a Turbulent Era, 1885-1920

by Daniel Beaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War Department Not a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new...

Johnson's Island

A Prison for Confederate Officers

by Roger Pickenpaugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known...
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