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Highlights the importance of historical myth in popular culture, religion, and politics and situates this nearly century-old debate in American cultural history.

Since 1991 the city of Joliet, Illinois, has commissioned painters for a series of public murals. This title documents the profound transformation in the local mentality wrought by the development of public art in the city.

Stein''s poems reveal the constancy of the American quest for work, family, and dignity, even as they evoke the bruised but still redemptive fruit of human compassion.  

Jane Rhodes is professor and department head of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century.

Poetical descriptions of the body, illness, and loss

Introduces a poet whose work, though it treads the ground of silence and loss, bears a redemptive grace. The sculptor, Gislebertus, Doubting Thomas, Theseus, and John Keats share space in the pages of this book. The poet's lyric meditations unravel a constant play of loss and continuation.

Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its history exhibits basic conflicts that had much to do with shaping American society in general.

Documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. This book uses historical and archival research and personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that bind them to eastern Kentucky.

Part memoir, part reportage, and all good reading, Take Down Flag & Feed Horses is the first volume devoted to the daily work of staff members at Yellowstone National Park. Written by a retired National Park Service historian, the book is divided into two parts, the first chronicling daily life at Yellowstone and the second detailing the savage fires that hit the park during the summer of 1988 and their aftermath. Bill Everhart lived at the park during the summer of 1978, accompanying the superintendent and his staff of rangers, naturalists, and scientists on daily rounds. His lively anecdotes and observations will lure readers farther and farther into the book and perhaps into the park as well. He gives a gripping account of the unstoppable fires of 1988 and shows how fire, a presence in the Yellowstone ecosystem for thousands of years, ensures biological diversity.       One of an elite cadre of Park Service employees who served in the system for many years, Everhart would smile knowingly at a comrade''s recollection of an old-timer who left often unnecessary instructions that regularly concluded with, "Take down flag & feed horses (TDF &; FH)." His book, a gentle excursion through places and among people, will be attractive to a wide range of readers.  

Explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts.

An expansive tour of the instruments that Bach knew

Examines the regional and national history that shaped Cline's career and the popular culture that she so profoundly influenced with her music.

The use of confidential sources during a tumultuous period in American history and journalism

Inside an original modern musical mind

The life and music of a bluegrass pioneer, in his own words

Far from being strictly a men's sport, baseball has long been enjoyed and played by Americans of all genders and classes since it became popular in the 1830s. This work questions the forces that have kept girls who want to play baseball away from the game. It offers a look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime.

Documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.

Exploring the cultural impact of a northern band's southern music

In X=, Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity. Stripping bare the burdens of gnawing, unknowing fear, Berg has found his way into a voice of great energy and spontaneity, into a form of overwhelming urgency and detail.

Includes the work of more than seventy-five poets, both those closely associated with Illinois (Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Fearing, and John Knoepfle) and those, such as Oak Park-born Ernest Hemingway, whose connection with the state may surprise.

Bringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship on the history of the emotions.

Attempts to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology.

A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American South

Investigating how gender affects voting