Historically accurate, this novel treads its way back to the mid-19th century. Here we find our country embroiled in the tumultuous task of nation building. Texas had just been accepted…

Richard Jensen offers a new interpretation of the last 180 years of American political history–one seen from the grass roots perspective. The second half of the book is a collection…

This two-part study first surveys Darrow’s life and rhetoric and then provides authoritative texts of his important speeches along with a complete speech chronology. Jensen documents the creation and enlargement…

Examining the liberal movements of the era as well as those that opposed them, this volume offers analyses of the rhetoric of leaders, including those of the civil rights movement…

Fueled by films and TV series such as Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers and popular books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw, interest in World War II has…

Presents insight into the co-operative endeavour of plains settlement. This title offers touching vignettes on the rituals of courting. It provides an account of pioneer life and an unmatched resource…

In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in…

The authors, both of whom have extensive backgrounds in philosophy and psychology, present balanced critical analyses of crucial developments in, for example, the evolution of the Freudian notion of the…