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Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War...

Author of over seventy books, including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and memoirs, Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) led a troubled yet vibrant life that shaped and was shaped by his writing...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest--a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range...

Many books have shown that journalists have political power, but none have offered a more wide-ranging account of how they got it. The Power of the Press is a pioneering look at the birth of...

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the...

Socrates, as he is portrayed in Plato's early dialogues, remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy. This book concerns six of the most vexing and often discussed...

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Bold and pioneering, this book makes a detailed historical and systematic case that Descartes's theory of knowledge is an elegant and powerful combination of a priori, naturalistic, and dialectical...

The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively...

Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize“A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity.” —KirkusThomas C. Gannon’s Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of...

In this provocative analysis of a nation in transition, one of America's most eminent historians examines the roots of America's shifting values and, in particular, how current changes in American...

Author of over seventy books, including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and memoirs, Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) led a troubled yet vibrant life that shaped and was shaped by his writing...

This study offers an historical and philosophical interpretation of and commentary on Plato's "Apology of Socrates". The authors argue, contrary to virtually every modern interpretation of the...

A Stanford University Press classic.