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Beyond the Call of Duty
At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one medical air evacuation squadrons located throughout the …
Splintered Light
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The …
Conservation Concerns in Fashion Collections
A manual and guide for preserving unique materials in fashion such as rayon, paper, and plasticsContinuous innovation and experimentation with the materials used in constructing …
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale
Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the …
C. S. Lewis's ""Perelandra
C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his favorite works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction writing, Perelandra part of Lewis's Space Trilogy is also …
A Question of Time
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical …
Arguing Americanism
In 1938 the United States was embroiled in a vicious debate between supporters of the two sides of the Spanish Civil War, who sought either to lift or to retain the U.S. arms …
The Heroic Earth
In ""The Heroic Earth"" David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture …
Interrupted Music
An eagerly awaited exploration of Tolkien's SilmarillionThe content of Tolkien's mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many …
Under Kilimanjaro
An American literary treasure“The sun was not up but that was because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the light was gray but good and Ngui and I were walking …
Wearable Prints, 1760-1860
Wearable prints are not only a decorative art form but also the product of a range of complex industrial processes and an economically important commodity. But when did textile …
The Sweet and the Bitter
In 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of …