Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion explores the interrelations of politics and religion. Discus
The second volume of the best from Civil War History For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. Th
War, armed conflict in general, and military service have likely inspired more textual testimonies than any other human event. Wars shatter every boundary imaginable—from national boundaries to bodily
Teaching Hemingway and Race provides a practicable means for teaching the subject of race in Hemingway’s writing and related texts—from how to approach ethnic, nonwhite international, and tribal chara
Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his
Teaching Hemingway in his time Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway’s work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand
In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds u
A collection of essays tracing seven decades of literary interaction between Hemingway and notable French authorsIn a 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay, Jean-Paul Sartre writes: “The greatest literary devel
A line-by-line examination of a neglected Hemingway gem In 1950, Ernest Hemingway was the most famous writer in the world, and he faced intense expectations for a masterwork to follow up his epic For
This revised edition of Ambrose Bierce’s 1892 collection of “Soldiers” and “Civilians” tales fills a void in American literature. A veteran of the Civil War and a journalist known for his integrity an
Some of the world’s greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appear: retirement, a special closeness with
"Notre Dame's rallying cry was once "Win one for the Gipper." The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to f
Explores the presence of democracy and race relations in nineteenth-century America through essays that address such topics as violence, White Leagues, and Reconstruction.
Ernest Hemingway is a writer we often associate with particular places and animals; Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Spain’s countryside, East Africa’s game reserves, Cuba’s blue water, and Idaho’s sagebru
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
A resident historian’s reflections on the Civil War’s most famous battleThe Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generated more than their share of analysis and published works. In My G
Trailblazing essays on the home front from Civil War History For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest stru
In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critical period in American history. Following a decade of
A major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship With the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s p
Ernest Hemingway's work reverberates with a blend of memory, geography, and lessons of life revealed through the trauma of experience. Michigan, Italy, Spain, Paris, Africa, and the Gulf Stream are so
Notwithstanding the archaeological record amassed over nearly a century, little is understood abut the dynamics that led from the Stone Age to a semblance of formative civilization. This volume attemp
“Stephen Frech’s approach in these calm poems is Rilkean. A deliberate attention informs their beauty.”—Don Bogen“In Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent, Stephen Frech takes a time-honored, traditio
A facsimile reproduction of the original 1900 editionEducator, author, and naturalist Harriet L. Keeler (1844–1921) was a prominent figure in her time. With this facsimile reprint of her first book wr
In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece ha
A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien’s Middle-earth“Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkien c
New pedagogy for studying literature in translation In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college cour
Reflections on the cultural and biomedical understandings of the human heart“Humans from ancient times have interpreted the heart in many ways: as the home of the soul, the seat of love, the place of
