Charles Dickens once commented that in each of his Christmas stories there is 'an express text pr...

During America's participation in World War I, 1917-1918, only a single commander of a division, ...

The 7th Infantry Regiment's motto, 'Willing and Able,' speaks volumes about its past. Throughout ...

Winner of the 2024 Society of the Cincinnati Prize from the American Revolution Institute

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an a...

Olson begins with an in-depth look at St. Joseph, Missouri, the place where Owen lived most of he...

'In his autobiography, Mark Twain confesses that 'from the cradle up I have been like the rest of...

Baseball's relationship to American ideals has long been an object of study across disciplines. I...

In Deadline: 200 Years of Violence against Journalists in the United States, Elizabeth Atwood off...

Abolitionist, fanatic, terrorist, freedom fighter, alleged murderer-all of those labels fit John ...

This engaging work by legal scholar Arnold Rochvarg presents a narrative history of the mid-1960s...

Canfield Drive

All along the river, from the front porches of Hannibal to the neighborhoods of St Louis to the c...

In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In ...

In this major new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-thi...

For most people, a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis means the certainty of a life ended too soon. But...

Comprises the correspondence between Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane Revealing their person...

This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. ...

Poetry. Edited by Ted Schaefer, Tricia Schaefer, Kay Callison, Jerry Dethrow, and Greg Michalson....

Loss and Redemption at St Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recountin...

'The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing...

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an a...

This text provides an account of the 1837-1838 removal of the Cherokees from the southeastern Uni...

Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

This debut collection of nine humorous stories, set in and around Kansas City often depicts adult...

O America

'George Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best know for developing new uses for agricultural crops...

'These poems explore interlocking themes of sacrifice--willing and forced--and the sacred dimensi...

Explores the legacy of an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizar...

Can You Smell the Rain?, Patricia Cleary Miller's new collection of poetry, poses the old theatri...

80 years ago, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri law school was denied base...

The second volume of this critically acclaimed autobiography chronicles events in Samuel Langhorn...

A new generation in Romania--with a few American friends--face communism's ghosts with desperatio...

Since its publication in a cloth edition in 1976, Penick's book has met with enormous regional ap...

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have tr...

Discusses the underlying causes of the US Civil War as they relate to Missouri and reveals how th...

We Met in Paris

In 1853 a man by the name of Charles Loring Brace, along with other well-to-do men in New York Ci...

When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed just four years after the United Nations, ...

These poems explore contemporary America especially in the Southwest, Navajo Diné identity, and t...

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on ...

'No one is better able to treat in a comprehensive way William Clark's public life than William F...

In Mozart's Pigtail, Townley offers an evocative series of poem-portraits of musicians, writers, ...

Perhaps the best known of all American five-star generals, Douglas MacArthur established his mili...

Weapons for Victory originally appeared in 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War...

On January 2, 1932, near Springfield, Missouri, ten poorly armed law enforcement officers set out...

An introduction to Missouri's chunk of Santa Fe Trail, providing an account of the trail's histor...