Books from Northern Illinois University Press
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Everyone to Skis!: Skiing in Russia and the Rise of Soviet Biathlon
By William D. FrankMayofthese individuals made significant contributions to this book , especially : William Spencer , John Morton , Peter Hale , Glenn Jobe , Russell Scott , Martin Hagen , Lyle Nelson , Art Stegen and John Ruger .
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The Story of My Campaign: The Civil War Memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, Second Illinois Calvary
By Francis T. MooreNot content with illuminating their camps only , the men of Companies D and L distributed more than 100 candles in the front yard of Mr. Pearson , a rebel citizen living near my company camp . Pearson and his family took the joke ...
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Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army
By Paul RobinsonVladimir Mikhailovich Bezobrazov , Diary of the Commander of the Russian Imperial Guard , 1914-1917 ( Boynton Beach , FL : Dramco , 1994 ) ... “ Perepiska V. A. Sukhomlinova s N. N. Ianushkevichem , ” Krasnyi Arkhiv 1 ( 1923 ) : 217 .
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Adenauer's Foreign Office: West German Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich
By Thomas MaulucciRadhakkrishnan , S. , 237–238 Rahn , Rudolf , 77 Rapallo Treaty ( 1922 ) , 130 , 220 , 224 , 241 , 345n66 Rechenberg ... See Foreign Office , German ( Weimar Republic ) Schulenberg , Friedrich - Werner Graf von der , 283n140 Schumacher ...
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This Must Be the Place
By Susan Jackson RodgersAmira was tall, vivid, a Roman princess, but close up her mouth and eyes were too large for her olive face, her eyebrows too black, cheekbones too sharp. “She's a knockout—from the balcony,” my father would say. And Amira.
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An Art Lover's Guide to Florence
By Judith TestaNew York : Harry N. Abrams , n.d. Hibbard , Howard . Michelangelo . New York : Vendome Press , 1978 . Wallace , William . Michelangelo : The Complete Sculpture , Painting , Architecture . New York : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates , 1998 .
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"Follow the Flag": A History of the Wabash Railroad Company
By H. Roger GrantReed letter; Who's Who in Railroading in North America, 368; St. Louis Globe-Democrat, September 9, 1963; Minute Book 26, Wabash Railroad Company, September 4, 1963, 2, NS Archives; New York Times, December 19, 1999.
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William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History
By Ronald Scott VasileSee Terrica M. Gibson, “Solomon G. Brown,” in James Conaway, The Smithsonian: 150 Years of Adventure, Discovery, and Wonder (Washington: Smithsonian Books, Knopf, 1996), 94–95. 51. Stimpson to Baird, June 29, 1869, SIA RU 7002; ...
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Making Martyrs East and West: Canonization in the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches
By Cathy CaridiIn short , can a canonized saint be " de - canonized " in Russia ? Historically , this has indeed happened , and more than once . Golubinskii recounts the case of Simon of Iurevits , a non - martyr who died in 1584 and was made a saint ...
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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved: The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s
By Thomas AielloLawton , James J. , and Carl P. Malmquist . ... Lohman , Joseph D. “ Youth : New Problems and New Directions . ... New York : Century Co. , 1922 . von Oettingen , Wolfgang F. , Paul A. Neal , and Dennis D. Donahue .
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Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of Moby-Dick
By Jonathan Alexander CookDrawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the ...
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A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865–1887
By Jr., H. Paul ThompsonAs such, A Most Stirring and Significant Episode offers a new take on the proliferation of prohibition and will not only speak to scholars of prohibition in the US and beyond, but also to historians of religion and the African American ...
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The Winter Palace and the People: Staging and Consuming Russia's Monarchy, 1754–1917
By Susan McCaffrayBurbank, Jane, Mark Von Hagen, A. V. Remnev, eds. Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700–1930. ... Materialy i cherty k biografii Imperatora Nikolaia I i k istorii ego tsarstvovaniia. St. Petersburg: Sbornik Imperatorskogo russkago ...
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The Rural Midwest Since World War II
By Rodney AndersonD.I. Jarvis, C. Padoch, and H.D. Cooper (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 1. 81. Jarvis et al., Managing Biodiversity, 1. 82. Paul William Brown, “Using the Past to Create a Sustainable Future for Agriculture: Environmental ...
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Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871–1971
By Elizabeth DaleAlthough everyone denied Nixon's claim that he was taken to 95th and Stony Island for several hours before going to the reenactment , several witnesses agreed that by 2:00 , Nixon , Fitzgerald , Hicks , Paradowski , Kush , McGuire , and ...
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The Toy and the Test Drive
By Gillian King-CargileThe series is an extension of STEM Read, a P-20 program that helps readers explore the science, technology, engineering, and math concepts behind popular fiction.
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Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln's Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric
By Jason JividenThe importance of the Lincoln image to Roosevelt and the progressive movement , as Barry Schwartz observes , was summed up in the Chicago Tribune's February 1909 centennial editorial : “ Our political institutions are being retested ...
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The Politics of Nonassimilation: The American Jewish Left in the Twentieth Century
By David VerbeetenBiale , D. , M. Galchinsky , and S. Heschel . Insider / Outsider : American Jews and Multiculturalism . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 . Bonfield , A. E. “ The Origin and Development of American Fair Employment ...
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Death and a Maiden: Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt
By William David MyersThis story serves as a captivating slice of European history as well as a highly informative look at the condition of poor women and the legal system in mid-17th century Germany.
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Cultivating Regionalism: Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest
By Kenneth H. WheelerFerris , quoted in Shepardson , Denison University , 53-54 . 40. Hamaline McKinney , “ History of Muskingum College , " 1876 ?, Box 5 , Muskingum College Archives . Herdman's letter against Professor Willson was copied into the August 8 ...