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This work describes the trade of the United States with the Far East, the islands of the Pacific, and the northwest coast of North American from 1784 to 1844. It also traces the growth of trade and investment in Alaska, Hawaii, and the South Pacific from 1844 to 1890.

This volume contains the plays written by Langston Hughes between 1930 and 1942, alone and in collaboration. Almost all the plays were performed during the same period; a few have never seen the stage, but are included because they indicate the range of Hughes's artistic and political concerns.

This volume presents the first-hand account of World War I through the eyes of a 17-year old enlisted American soldier, William Triplet.

Drawing on letters and diaries, this biography details Rose Wilder Lane's life and highlights her troubled relationship with an apparently cold and manipulative mother. It throws light on the writing of the ""Little House"" books.

When the secret police came for his father in 1938, the author as a kid, saw his family plunged into a morass of fear. This memoir of growing up in Stalinist Russia portrays the daily trials of people trapped in this regime before and during the repressive years of World War II - and the struggles of refugees after that conflict.

Details the controversy, history, and rise of this news genre, but its main objective is to show aspiring videojournalists how to learn the craft. While other textbooks depict the conventional reporter-and-videographer model, Going Solo innovates by teaching readers how to successfully juggle the skills traditionally required of two different people.

Growing up as a slave in an urban area of Missouri allowed William Wells Brown to live a life that was different from that of the typical plantation slave. This book reprints two of Brown's best-known writings, ""Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave"" and ""My Southern Home"".

Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. Here Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life. In this volume, Larry Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions.

A reading of Wilder's life, fiction, drama, and criticism as a product of American culture. The book also emphasizes aspects of Puritan theology, ideology, and aesthetics that have been suppressed or repressed into our cultural unconscious but are manifested in Wilder's texts in response to various historical or personal stimuli.

This anthology grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era. Those conferences established an academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era.

With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. It helped teach midwesterners to read music using shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenth-century New England.

This is an account of the years 1820 to 1865 in the life of Malindy, a freeborn Cherokee who was unlawfully enslaved as a child by a Franklin County, Missouri, farmer. Married to a freedman, Malindy gave birth to five children in slavery - creating a family she would fight her whole life to keep together.

For much of her career Mary Louise Smith stood alone as a woman in a world of politics run by men. After devoting over two decades of her life to politics, she eventually became the first, and only, woman chairman of the Republican National Committee. Suzanne O'Dea examines Smith's rise and fall within the party and analyses her strategies for gaining the support of Republican Party leaders.

Tells the story of traditionalist conservatism and its boundaries in twentieth-century America. Because this time period encompasses both the rise of the modern conservative movement and the demise of southern regional distinctiveness, it affords an ideal setting both for observing the potentiality of American conservatism and for understanding the fate of the traditionalist "man of letters".

Taking seriously Mark Twain's life as a citizen of urban landscapes - from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna and the suburban utopia of Hartford - these essays represent Twain both as a product of urban frontiers and as a prophet of American modernity, situating him squarely within the context of an evolving international and cosmopolitan community.

The most bitter guerrilla conflict in American history raged along the Kansas-Missouri border from 1856 to 1865, making that frontier the first battleground in the struggle over slavery. Here the author examines the significance of the border war on both sides of the line and offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of its origins, meanings, and consequences.

Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's novel but hardly out of character - for the author, that is. This book explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the substantial cast of characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations.

One hundred years after its writing, Mark Twain's 'The Mysterious Stranger' remains a literary enigma. Twain's last significant full-length work of fiction and one of his most deeply philosophical works on the nature of truth and the human condition, it was unfinished at his death and has gained a reputation as an experimental text.

Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter was "going home". Part travelogue, part memoir, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family.

An in-depth analysis that examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Explores WWII's implications for the lives of children. In thematic chapters, the author delves into children's experiences of family, school, play, work, and home, uncovering the range of effects the war had on youths of various ethnicities and backgrounds.

Evaluates one of the most original and influential thinkers of our time by examining his relationship to the modern continental tradition in philosophy, from Kant to Derrida.