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A collection of essays that presents scholarship on James Madison, the philosophical statesman who served as the nation's fourth president and who is often called both the father of the US Constitution and the father of the Bill of Rights.

As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm spring day, he receives an unexpected visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, has been murdered.

On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen of the state.

A collection of 150 letters that offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. It reveals details of the lives of mostly young, single women - friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for correspondents.

A collection of 150 letters that offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. It reveals details of the lives of mostly young, single women - friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for correspondents.

Focuses on a rich and diverse range of sources, that can find enthusiastic audiences in classrooms and in the general public. This book traces the many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity, became a dominant culture.

The late archaic and early woodland people lived in the Ohio region between 5,000 and 2,000 years ago. This book describes important archaeological sites such as the rich Late Archaic settlements of southwestern Ohio and the early Adena Dominion Land Company enclosure in Franklin County.

The late archaic and early woodland people lived in the Ohio region between 5,000 and 2,000 years ago. This book describes the focused archaeological studies that focuses on this important episode in human cultural development.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, legislators in the Nebraska Territory grappled with the responsibility of forming a state government as well as with the larger issues of reconstructing the Union, protecting civil rights, and redefining federal-state relations.

Two friends, one rich by local standards, and the other of more modest means, grow to manhood in a lifelong contest of will and character. In response to many of the same circumstances - war, love, moonshining, the Klan, the economy - their different approaches and solutions to dealing with their situations put them at odds with each other.

Swiss missionaries played a primary and little-known role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasizes how these European intellectuals, brought to the deep rural areas of southern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent.

Addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of the axis of evil. This book explores the effects of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 including censorship, execution, and pending war on the country as well as on his understanding of his own origins.

Jim's wife is heading to the hospital with her miscarriage, and he is heading to Baghdad to cover the American invasion of Iraq. He hates himself for deserting her when she needs him, for being consumed by his job - but how to stop moving? This book tells the story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next.

Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.

In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West.

In 1910 John Merven Carrere, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, "Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities." The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C.,

A study about the influence of travel on Robert Louis Stevenson's writings. Within the contexts of late-Victorian imperialism and ethnographic discourse, this book offers readings of individual works by Stevenson while bringing fresh theoretical insights to bear on the relationship between travel, authorship, and gender identity.

Recounts the story of the Overmountain Men and the battle of King's Mountain, a tide-turning battle in the American Revolution. This title includes the stories of native Americans, settlers, explorers, and revolutionaries of early America.

Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists.

Rational Animals: The Teleological Roots of Intentionality offers an original account of the intentionality of human mental states, such as beliefs and desires.

Rookwood and the American Indian blends anthropology with art history to reveal the relationships between the white settlers and the Native Americans in general, between Cincinnati and the American Indian in particular, and ultimately between Rookwood artists and their Indian friends.

Civil War Missouri stood at the crossroads of America. As the most Southern-leaning state in the Middle West, Missouri faced a unique dilemma. The state formed the gateway between east and west, as well as one of the borders between the two contending armies.

Describes the contributions of individuals such as James Alexander, the guiding and central force in the colonial-era trial of John Peter Zenger, which sowed the seeds for the American Revolution and the constitutional guarantee of a free press. This book tells the stories of the individuals who stood firmly in support of the rule of law.

Just before the turn of the twentieth century, immigrants from eastern and southern Europe who had settled in mining regions of Minnesota formed a subculture that combined elements of Old World traditions and American culture. This book traces the festive history of Independence Day from 1776 to the twentieth century.

In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning's known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning's life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.In

"A good place to be from." That's how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement.

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk.