Gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This book traces the development ...

This real-life Little Women is the fascinating story of three of the six Fay sisters between 1850...

This real-life Little Women is the fascinating story of three of the six Fay sisters between 1850...

Concerted government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded veterans started with the...

Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a reexamination of the...

Looking at the U.S. Supreme Court under John Roberts, which assertively places itself into the na...

This volume chronicles the history of 280 steamboats built between 1810 and 1936 along a 60-mile ...

Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Mother is a deeply personal memoir that explores the inter...

In this essay collection, leading and emerging scholars provide in-depth analyses of unexamined a...

Looking at the U.S. Supreme Court under John Roberts, which assertively places itself into the na...

Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln annotated and wrote the introduction to the 1915 e...

A compelling true crime memoir about a high-profile criminal case in Chicagoland and Indonesia th...

Global perspectives on policing within LGBTQ+ communities

A collection of poems by Harriet Monroe, the visionary founding editor of Poetry magazine. While ...

Gettysburg is a paradox: Today it is beautiful, still, and filled with visitors, yet this nationa...

In this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles ''Charley'' Hager is plu...

This book provides a comprehensive portrayal of the growth and development of Chicago from the mu...

This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university's founding by exploring in depth its...

Paul Powell emerged from the hill country of southern Illinois to serve in state government from ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman has come down to us as the implacable destroyer of the Civil War...

Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers travel...

Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of Americ...

This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America’s...

Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were kille...

Looks at one of American history's greatest figures, Abraham Lincoln. This book traces the presid...

Twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people spanning the Civil...

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Zion, the latest collection of poems by TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the resonating effec...

Lincoln’s enduring relationship with the American immigrantBetween 1840 and 1860, America receive...

'Black Americans in Mourning chronicles the grief felt by African Americans after the assassinati...

Offering a glimpse into a world largely misunderstood by mainstream society, this book documents ...

'This biography of Abraham Lincoln, told through the stories of the women in his life and work, i...

This Gilded Age social history of death investigations in the urban Midwest examines the role of ...

In August 1968, c. 7,000 people protested the Vietnam War against the backdrop of the Democratic ...

Examines the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and in...

Collecting fifty Abraham Lincoln sto­ries—some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected—Lo...

The story of a woman simultaneously sustained and stifled by her affair, this book invites reader...

Married to John A. Logan for thirty-one years, Mary Logan shared in her distinguished husband's c...

Early in the Civil War, two young brothers boldly flew the Union flag from a tree atop a hill bet...

Throughout Salt Moon, Noel Crook forges the kind of tragic vision Howard Nemerov described as the...

In these poems, five generations sing, save, scold, bury, and cook against the culture and histor...

Objects of Hunger explores in reflective, raw lyrics the dread and beauty of our inner worlds as ...

Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu's sixth collection of poems, 'Fo...

Recalls how the author and her siblings came of age on the family farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Th...

Most Americans have considered, and still consider, Abraham Lincoln to be a heroic figure. From h...

One of Library Journal's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019

Examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. Rob...

In this affecting poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our w...