The slice-of-life comic strip tackles real-world issues as its conclusion looms In this penultimate volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean, creator Tom Batiuk gives unique insight into his creative process and explains why he made the difficult decision to end the strip after 50 years. But even with the strip's conclusion in sight, Batiuk still ......
It began with a simple question: was Ernest Hemingway a "car guy"? For journalist Mark Burrell, this initial curiosity turned into a decades long quest to learn more about Hemingway by finding the people who knew him best in Italy, Cuba, and Key West. With every interview and meeting, more questions arose. Was an old boat at Hemingway's Cuban ......
Grounded in deep concern about the climate crisis, Carolyn Williams-Noren's Oil Courses recalls a family reliant on the oil industry-her father worked for British Petroleum in Anchorage, Alaska-and a summer spent in its service on Endicott Island. What "curriculum" has oil offered each of us? To answer, Oil Courses turns to strange happenings in ......
Detailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warrens famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how Warrens experiences provide an illuminating window into the events, personalities, and culture of 20th-century England.
The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability
Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847- 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from epilepsy-which the society of her era mistakenly ......
Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transition While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds"), its transition away from steel has in fact been uneven and contested. Christopher P. Briem grew up in the city's Bloomfield and South Side ......
Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army
The Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many challenges to soldier health posed by camp life. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with preventive health care in the volunteer army. The U.S. Sanitary Commission, a non-governmental agency ......
An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences that made them well suited ......
Tom Batiuk showcases his roots as the Funkyverse expands In this latest volume, Tom Batiuk continues to explore the roots of comic books and newspaper comic strips and provides unique insight into the evolution of his own creative process. Beginning five years after the strip's most recent time-jump, the Funky gang are now in their late forties ......
