The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This book chronicles the history of "guerrilla memory," the collision of the Civil War memory "industry" with the somber realities of irregular warfare in the borderlands of Missouri and Kansas. In the f...
After World War II, the pivotal event in twentieth-century American history, life both at home and abroad seemed more complex and more dangerous than ever before. The political, economic, and social changes wrought by the war, such as the centralization and regulation of economic affairs by the federal government, new roles for women and minorities in American life, and the world leadership of the United States, remained in place after the soldiers and sailors returned home. Although the impact...
The Fairer Death (Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest) (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest)
by Victor L. Streib
Women on death row are such a rarity that, once condemned, they may be ignored and forgotten. Ohio, a typical, middle-of-the-road death penalty state, provides a telling example of this phenomenon. The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio explores Ohio's experience with the death penalty for women and reflects on what this experience reveals about the death penalty for women throughout the nation. Victor Streib's analysis of two centuries of Ohio death penalty legislation and adjudication revea...
Nebraska's Carl Milton Aldrich and the Arbor Day Song
by Rachel Brupbacher
Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, Volume 7, 1995
This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Elizabeth C. Fine; Archie Green; Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer; Susan Eike Spalding; Linda Plaut and Lyn Wolz; Kathleen Curtis Wilson; Donald Edward Davis; Tom Costa; Robert Weise; Mary LaLone; Kim Gillespie; Anita Puckett; Pam B. Cole; Shaunna L. Scott; Sally Ward Maggard; and Richard Blaustein.
Indiana Bicentennial Vol 1 (Indiana Bicentennial, #1)
by Bob Ostrander
Ghosts of North Central Indiana (Haunted America)
by Maria Salvo and W C Madden
Ghosts and Legends of Genesee & Lapeer Counties (Haunted America)
by Roxanne Rhoads and Joe Schipani
The Faith and Fire Within Us was first published in 1944."All in all, the more I study the democratic tradition, the greater cause I see for faith and hope."However American are the faith and fire within us, however vital to America in time of war, they are also a part of the great tradition of the past, of all English-speaking nations. It is the importance of this continuity from age to age that gives strength to Elizabeth Jackson's treatment of American ideas. That Raymond Clapper is a direct...
