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From SWEETBACK to SUPER FLY
Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Americans. In From Sweetback to …
Reforming Legislatures
Legislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in …
Loss and Redemption at St. Vith
Loss and Redemption at St Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. Most …
Omar Nelson Bradley
When Omar Nelson Bradley began his military career more than a century ago, the army rode horses into combat and had less than 200,000 men. No one had heard of mustard gas. At the …
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton s nearly four decades as a professional soldier in the U.S. Army tie his story closely to that of America in the nineteenth century, from the Civil War to the …
Inappropriation
In 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white middle-class fascination with …
Bosnian Studies
It has been 27 years since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the history of the conflict, its consequences, and long-term implications for the politics and lives of …
Missouri Railroad Pioneer
Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the Father of Southeast Missouri because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this …
Seeing MAD
"e;Seeing Mad"e; is an illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humor magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year history-up to …
Lanford Wilson
Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, and Burn This, he wrote …
Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era
Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term …
Indigenous Missourians
The history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white settlers and forced …