A broad-based approach to preservationAfter completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this com
Essays on Cold War tensions within NATO and the Warsaw PactThere is no shortage of literature addressing the workings, influence, and importance of NATO and the Warsaw Pact individually or how the two
Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction focuses on the nature of Bradbury's writing, exploring his profound involvement with the life of carnival asa textual process as well as a thematic concern in his wr
C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, the creators of Narnia and Middle-earth, were close friends, colleagues, and members of the Inklings, a writers group that met in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, shari
Civil War letters from soldiers serving in a German regimentOrganized by Colonel August Willich, a former Prussian army officer who led troops during the German Revolution of 1848, Indiana's German 32
Using key canonical science fiction narratives, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the nineteenth century. In this original and ref
This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music and general melodic theory to describe the inner workings of a rich melodic tradition.
In the past, collections of Bradbury’s works have juxtaposed stories with no indication as to the different time periods in which they were written. Even the mid- and late-career collections that Brad
A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conferenceThe twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 1
A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problemSince its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U
How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city’s nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960sWinsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described “effeminate young man,” French occupied des
An illustrated compendium of a prolific designer of Ohio churches Akron-based architect William P. Ginther (1858–1933) designed sixty-three Roman Catholic churches, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy
Eyewitness Civil War testimony from a major American writer This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgée’s regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1896. Tourgée,
William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not o
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of SingaporeIn the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progre
A fascinating examination of an overlooked weapon For most of us, our knowledge of slings and slingstones begins and ends with the biblical tale of David slaying Goliath. Scholars and archaeologists h
A collection of the last forty years of research on Ohio’s caves and rocksheltersCaves and Culture seeks to address a number of important problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans throu
A sociological study of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University and their aftermath “On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of protestors at Kent State Unive
As a highly visual writer, Ray Bradbury’s works have frequently been adapted for film and television. One of the most stylized and haunting dramatizations is François Truffaut’s 1966 film adaptation o
