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Trial Films on Trial
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen
Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908,...
by Laurent Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs. Joubert was an educator as well as...
True Faith and Allegiance
An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc is an intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of America’s departure from Indochina. An unintended consequence of Washington’s stampede to get...
Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This compelling narrative demonstrates the passionate interest the
Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and
expanding Jefferson's "empire of liberty."
The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans
eager to move away from the crowded...
by John Cimprich
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson’s role in emancipation. In Tennessee a significant number of slaves took advantage of the disruptions resulting from...
Trumping Religion
The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in litigating cases regarding religion.
Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000....
Sarah Orne Jewett
Reconstructing Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In her book Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the-century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned...
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics—the...
by Darlene Harbour Unrue
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Katherine Anne Porter Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing and intimate portrait of the elusive and complex American writer.
From a fractured and vagabond girlhood in Texas, Porter led a wildly itinerant...
Head Masters
Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced.
Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology—the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character—played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal...
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories
Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Race and Culture in New Orleans Storiesposits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories...
Warriors Without War
Seminole Leadership in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Warriors Without War takes readers beneath the placid waters of the Seminole’s public image and into the fascinating depths of Seminole society and politics.
For the entire last quarter of the twentieth century, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a federally recognized American Indian Tribe,...
Mule South to Tractor South
Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2009
The author describes the adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor. After describing the surprising slowness of southern farmers to realize the superiority of the mule over the horse for agricultural labor, Ellenberg...
Perilous Missions
Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air...