A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped
"Historical patterns suggest that democratic governments, which often fight wars against authoritarian regimes, maintain peaceful relationships with other governments that uphold political freedoms an
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a b
History as fiction’s muse -- “When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginat
Traces the efforts by a group of scholars, philanthropists, publicists, and jurists to reverse the US Senate's rejection of membership in the League of Nations. Combines information on individuals and
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian B
The first modern biography of this notable politician“Mach’s detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressive piece of scholarship and will
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and mo
A comprehensive constitutional and political study of a new state’s fiercely contested establishment during the Civil War era When western Virginians separated from the Commonwealth of Virginia to for
This is the first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920s. The Benet name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prizewinni
This book is an expanded and revised version of a monograph titled Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages published in 2004 by the Sacred Landmarks Initiative at Cleveland State Univer
The inaugural volume in a new historiography series Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past
Cultural Variability in Context, a collection of papers presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in April 1989, documents and explains the varied settlement and sub
A Man of Distinction among Them represents an important step in understanding the complexities surrounding the early history of the Ohio Country and the Old Northwest and provides the clearest and mos
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and rade by foucusing on antislavery writing by or about Frnch women in the Frnach women in the Fre
An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authorsLike its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New
Creative fragments set aside for a day that never came Each previous The New Ray Bradbury Review, prepared and edited by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, examines the impact of Bradbury’s writings
When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, he also authorized the U.S. Army to recruit black soldiers for the war effort. Nearly 200,000 men answered the call, and several thou
"Who was Lew Wallace's true foe--the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself? Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinary military talent. With boldness and celerity, he adv
The best essays by one of the leading experts on the Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War, a military rebellion supported by Hitler and Mussolini, attracted the greatest writers of the age. Among t
