"Another line of duty death" is a chilling headline that serves as an obituary for too many "first responders." In 2002 Fort Worth joined the ranks of other communities across the nation in building a
In 2009 Fort Worth unveiled an elaborate, million-dollar memorial to its fallen police and firefighters going all the way back to the city's beginnings in 1873. Fifty-eight of the ninety-five names on
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history. Combining new revelations from th
Through the lens of ecocriticism, history, memory, and gender studies, this book studies the many ways in which the image of the river has been integrated into Latin/o American literature from the per
In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul.A bestseller in its day, it inspired a number of seque
Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and
Working from his parents' original last published in 1996, Michael Heinl has updated the orthography of Creole for this third edition. The collective Heinls cover Haiti's history from its first contac
"Many of the world's most important historical figures were imprisoned for holding unpopular or heretical beliefs. Some used their time behind bars to write books that shaped the course of history. Th
The series is devoted to exploring the history of non-verbal, oral, and written communication during the Middle Ages, and this latest volume considers images and imagining from Christian late antiquit
Written by academics in theology, education, and sociology as well as founders, directors, and teachers in faith-based schools, 42 chapters of this impressive 2-volume reference detail the history and
