Books from SIU Press
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Abraham and Mary Lincoln
By Kenneth J. WinkleMary Todd 's great-grandparents, David and Hannah Todd, settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in 1737 as part ofthis Scots-Irish immigration that populated the piedmont and backcountry with frontier families renowned for their fiery ...
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Delyte Morris of SIU
By Betty Lou Mitchell... 43 Glassboro State College , 159 Glenny , Lyman , 164 , 165 , 167 , 192 Goldman , Harry , 167 Goldman , Pete , 73 , 74 Goodman , Stanley , 179 Gores , Harold , 219 Governor's Conference on Recreation , 62 Graduate School ( College ) ...
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Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937
By Chambers, Jonathan L73 blindness , in works of JHL , 102 Bloch , Beverle Rochelle , 7 Bloch , Ralph , 141 , 143 Block , Anita , 49 Boda , Mike , 83-84 Bonn , John , 200 Boston State House , 239n . 93 “ Bourgeois Hamlet in Our Time ...
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The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire
By Todd Nathan ThompsonOf Douglas's cannons, he had said previously, “There is a passage, I think, in the Book of the Koran, which reads: 'To him that bloweth not his own horn—to such a man it is forever decreed that . . . his horn shall not be blowe-ed!
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Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry: With a New Preface and Annotated Bibliography
By Brian VickersIn book 1 , canto 9 , Una and 1 - Cross Knight are travelling together , when suddenly they see a knight galloping in terror towards them . It is Sir Trevisan , fleeing from Despair , and in the details of his appearance the negative ...
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Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy
By Robert A SchankeQuoted in McCarthy , " Cultural Patronage , " 21 . 26. Quoted in Steven C. Dubin , Arresting Images : Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions ( New York : Routledge , 1992 ) , 151 ; " She Walks in Chocolate , " Washington Times , May 17 ...
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Strange Land
By Todd HearonCinema Muto Jesse Lee Kercheval Train to Agra Vandana Khanna IfNo Moon Moira Linehan For Dust Thou Art Timothy Liu Strange Valentine A. Loudermilk Dark Alphabet Jennifer Maier Oblivio Gate Sean Nevin Holding Everything Down William ...
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Writing Genres
By Amy J Devitt8 Berlin, James A., 107, 108 Bhatia, Vijay K., 2 Bitzer, Lloyd F., 2, 14–18, 24, 36, 50 Bizzell, Patricia, 36, 59 Black, Edwin, 13 Blakesley, David, 223n. 5 Bleich, David, 223n. 4 Bourdieu, Pierre, 59 Brooks, Kevin, 204 Burke, Kenneth, ...
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Lincoln and Citizenship
By Mark E. SteinerMark E. Steiner ... Hiroshi, 112 127th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 71 Oregon Constitution of 1857, 51, 53 Ottawa Free Trader, 52 National Anti-Slavery Standard, 100 Palmer, John M., 86 Paine, Thomas, 22 Pearson, Clinton D., ...
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Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus
By John TheodoreRogers Hornsby, a former Cubs manager, couldn't believe the Cubs traded Waitkus, a favorite in Chicago. “The Cubs have two real ballplayers—Andy Pafko and Eddie Waitkus,” Hornsby said.
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When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange
By Richard Lewis WardAgain as related by Elmer Pearson, upon returning to the United States, Lynch discovered that Pathé's inventory had ... and Middle-Class Investors (1999), Edwin J. Perkins offers a slightly different take on Brunet's exit from Pathé, ...
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The Collected Works of John Dewey, Index: 1882 - 1953
By Jo Ann BoydstonA cumulative index to "The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953," this distinctive, indispensable volume includes a collected works contents, title index, and subject index.
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Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma: Masculinity in the Rabbit Novels
By Mary O'ConnellIt is , for example , enlightening to consider Updike's perspective in Rabbit , Run as a development of Fitzgerald's insight into the nature of success in The Great Gatsby ( 1925 ) , with Marty Tothero playing Meyer Wolfsheim to ...
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Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States
By Jean Ferguson Carr, Stephen L. Carr, Lucille M. SchultzHenry Pearson's Principles of Composition (1898) describes a course taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but developed at Harvard. Pearson dedicates his book to his Harvard teacher and colleague Barrett Wendell.
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The Longest Cave
By Richard A. Watson, Roger W. BruckerThis is the gripping and suspenseful story of the magnificent achievement that has been compared to the conquest of Everest-- the final connection between the Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave systems.
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Lincoln's Sense of Humor
By Richard CarwardineJohn McMahon to Lincoln, August 5, 1864; Lincoln to John McMahon, August 6, 1864; John G. Nicolay to John McMahon, August 6, 1864, ALP. 49. Burlingame, 2:809. 4. Purposes, Functions, Effects 1. Villard, Memoirs, 1:143. 2. ALLL, xii. 3.
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Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama As Persuasive Practice
By Steven N. Lipkin1992 , and in " The Shooting of JFK , Stone's interview with R. S. Anson , in Esquire Nov. 1991 . 2. These include Tom Wicker , " Does JFK Conspire Against Reason ? " New York Times 15 Dec. 1991 ; Kenneth Auchincloss , " Twisted History ...
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Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello: Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate
By Philip J. Rock, Ed WojcickiThomas A. McGloon Thomas A. McGloon W. Russell Arrington (R) W. Russell Arrington (R) Cecil Partee (D) Cecil Partee (D) William Harris (R) William Harris (R) David Shapiro (R) David Shapiro (R) David Shapiro (R) David Shapiro (R) David ...
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Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 - 1642
By Robert B. GravesThe three o'clock reference in Histriomastix is precise, but Collier was pushing his evidence rather hard. The play is a satire ofa ragtag provincial acting company that hopes to perform in the local town hall.
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Kay Boyle, Artist and Activist
By Sandra Whipple SpanierHe now takes it as his personal mission to expose the truth about Sylvestre — a man " scarred , pitted , revoltingly defaced by a misanthropy too savage to be repudiated ” ( MN , 144 ) —so that the doctor's victims still surviving in ...