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The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. This book tells the history of the field through the figures, institutions, and movements that helped create and shape the profession.

In this wide-ranging analysis, the authors demonstrate how visual language in professional communication - text design, data displays, illustrations - is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified and modified by users in visual discourse communities.

Offers an engaging collection of ninety-four essays on the lands, waters, plants, and animals found in Illinois. The book discusses how wind, water, glaciers, earthquakes, fire, and people have shaped Illinois' landforms, natural habitats, rivers and streams, and the ways in which native plants and animals, from individual species to entire ecosystems, have thrived, survived, or died out.

Offers a treatment of Abraham Lincoln's invention of a device to buoy vessels over shoals. This book shows how, when, where, and why Lincoln created his invention and demonstrates how his penchant for inventions and discoveries informed his political belief in internal improvements and free-labor principles.

Argues that education reform initiatives in the twentieth century can be understood in terms of historical shifts in the ideas, interests, and governing arrangements that inform the teaching of writing.

Argues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many forms, and successfully model mutually beneficial relationships.

Partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways.

Drawing on decades of teaching experience and the collective wisdom of dozens of the most creative theorists in the country, Michael R. Rogers's diverse survey of music theory surveys and evaluates the teaching styles, techniques, and materials used in theory courses.

This curated volume opens the largest collection of Grant photos to the public for the first time. Excerpts from Grant's personal writings divulge his candid thoughts about the people he posed with and the situations he faced around the time the photographs were taken.

Proposes a practical philosophy of contemporary theatrical design that addresses all design disciplines, all theatrical collaborators, and all forms of theatre, from the traditional to the avant-garde. Joshua Langman celebrates design as a transformative force with the power to elevate a performance.

Through extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned a mind as powerfully intellectual and superlatively communicative as that of any other American political leader. Reading with Lincoln uncovers the how of Lincoln's inspiring rise to greatness by connecting the content of his reading to the story of his life.

In this first study of Black radicalism in midwestern cities before the civil rights movement, Melissa Ford connects the activism of Black women who championed justice during the Great Depression to those involved in the Ferguson Uprising and the Black Lives Matter movement.

While both museum studies and rhetoric centre the audience in their scholarship and practices, this volume engages across and between these disciplines, allowing for a fuller theorization and enactment of rhetorical education's connections to social justice.

During the Enlightenment, Scottish intellectuals and administrators met the demands of profit and progress while shepherding concerns for self and other, individual and community, and family and work. This book presents the Scottish Enlightenment as an exemplar of tenacious hope countering the excesses of individualism.

Fashions a vocabulary from new materialist theory, media theory, postmodern theory, and digital rhetoric to rethink the connections between humans and digital media. Addressed are the concerns that scholars have with digital culture: how technologies affect attention spans, how digital media are used to compose, and how digital rhetoric is taught.

Histories try to forget, as this evocative study of one community reveals. Forgetting and the Forgotten details the nature of how a community forged its story against outsiders. Historian Michael Batinski explores the habits of forgetting that enable communities to create an identity based on silencing competing narratives.

Chicago's quirky patron saint. This thrilling story of a daughter of America's foremost industrialist, John D. Rockefeller, is complete with sex, money, mental illness, and opera divas-and a woman who strove for the independence to make her own choices.

The first book to document the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the state of Illinois, this volume maps the pedacito de patria (little piece of home) that many Puerto Ricans have carved from the hardships faced in Illinois. Maura Toro-Morn and Ivis GarcIa illustrate the multiple paradoxes underlying the experience of Puerto Ricans in Illinois.

Intensely and unapologetically homoerotic in content and theme, The Flesh Between Us sensuously conducts the meetings between strangers, between lovers, between friends and family, between eater and eaten, between the soul and the body that contains it.

Lyrical and warm, Derek Otsuji's voice sounds out a sinew of words that make the remnants of heritage and home durable. In these poems each new generation seeks to reimagine for itself the elusive American Dream.

Describes the organisation and management of the Confederate army's medical department. Guy Hasegawa investigates how political considerations, personalities, and, as the war progressed, the diminishing availability of human and material resources influenced decision-making.

This evenhanded assessment explains how Abraham Lincoln thought about Native Americans, interacted with them, and was affected by them. Although ignorant of Native customs, Lincoln revealed none of the hatred or single-minded opposition to Native culture that animated other leaders and some of his own political and military officials.

Over a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality and women's civil rights. Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and power of women's rhetoric.

In this timely and important collection, contributors show #MeToo is not only a support network of victims' voices and testimonies but also a revolutionary interrogation of policies, power imbalances, and ethical failures that resulted in decades-long cover-ups and institutions structured to ensure continued abuse.