This collection of sixteen essays, authored by major scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric, offers an eclectic range of opinions, perspectives, and interpretations regarding the place of composition studies in its academic context. Covering the history of rhetoric and composition from the nineteenth century to the present, the ......
Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois details the life of Colonel Benjamin Stephenson through unique access to primary sources, including the house in which Stephenson lived--and which still stands--and connects it to the larger history of the surrounding area, state, and country. Once published as a series of articles, ......
In 1877 former president Ulysses S. Grant, along with his family and friends, embarked on a two-year world tour that took him from Liverpool to Yokohama with stops throughout Europe and Asia. Biographies of Grant deal very briefly, if at all, with this tour and generally treat it as a pleasure trip filled with sightseeing, shopping, wining, and ......
Vice Districts and the Birth of Chicago Organized Crime
Richard C. Lindberg reveals how Chicago politicians created and ran segregated vice districts, or levees, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that the levees' existence presaged the modern plague of global human trafficking.
Vice Districts and the Birth of Chicago Organized Crime
Richard C. Lindberg reveals how Chicago politicians created and ran segregated vice districts, or levees, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that the levees' existence presaged the modern plague of global human trafficking.
Historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1876-1918
Considered a founder of the field of church historiography, Henry Warner Bowden provides the earliest analyses of the work of John C. Shea, Ephraim Emerton, Frank H. Foster, Arthur C. McGiffert, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Philip Schaff. Bowden explicates the dramatic juxtapositions resulting from two powerful and opposing definitions of history: ......
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people, two thirds of whom were women and children, were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed attempt to escape. A century after the ......
With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It
In 1924, the murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner shocked the world, providing the real-life inspiration for Maurine Watkins's unforgettable characters, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. Now, a century later, this reissue of Watkins's play offers a fresh look at the origins of the story that has since become a household name. From the ......
First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team histories, Frank Graham's colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers in "all their glory and all their daffiness" from the team's beginnings as the Atlantics in 1883 through 1943, with a short summary of the 1944 season. In his foreword, Hall of Fame sports writer Jack ......
