Since the publication of the first edition of Grasses: Bromus to Paspalum in 1972, twenty-two additional taxa of grasses have been discovered in Illinois that are properly placed in this volume. In a
On May 10, 1876, Ulysses S. Grant pulled a lever to start the mighty 1,400-horsepower Corliss Steam Engine, powering acres of machinery for the nation’s Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. G
Mexico had interested Ulysses S. Grant since the young lieutenant fought there. ?Now, as president of the Mexican Southern Railroad, he emerged as a strong advocate of increased trade and investment.
William Burroughs is both an object of widespread cultural fascination and one of America’s great original writers. The two mysteries that Oliver Harris explores are how Burroughs became that writer a
In this broadly conceived study, Ralf E. Remshardt delineates the theatre’s deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive and theoretically intensive relationship between pe
In Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing, author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to grief. Performing Loss prov
In this fourth and final installment in the Aquatic and Standing Water Plants of the Central Midwest series, veteran botanist Robert H. Mohlenbrock identifies aquatic and wetland plants in eight cent
"These diaries are crucial documents of courage and mercy in the face of appalling human brutality."---Kasahara Tokushi, author of One Hundred Days in the Nanjing Refugee Zone"The diaries stand as tim
Notified of his nomination for a second term in June 1872, Ulysses S. Grant accepted, promising "the same zeal and devotion to the good of the whole people for the future of my official life, as shown
Inaugurated for a second term on March 4, 1873, Ulysses S. Grant gave an address that was both inspiring and curiously bitter. He told the assembled crowd, "It is my firm conviction that the civilized
By late 1878, after a year and a half abroad, Ulysses S. Grant had visited every country in Europe, and he was homesick.? ?I have seen nothing to make me regret that I am an American.? Our country: it
In the final weeks of the 1880 campaign, Ulysses S. Grant left Galena and headed east to stump for the Republican ticket.? At rallies in New England, upstate New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New
Ulysses S. Grant faced numerous political challenges during 1874. In the south, the Republican party steadily receded from power. As the year opened, Grant conceded Texas to the Democrats, counseling
