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Drawn to poetry throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln read verse for comfort and pleasure, used it in his writings and speeches, and looked to it for insights into spiritual matters and politics, and spontaneously recited it in dark moments to lift his spirits. Christopher Sullivan's engaging exploration focuses on the role of poetry in Lincoln's ......
Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people and Black women. The editors curate essays that see beloved community as a generous space that ......
Archival pedagogy prioritizes student-driven inquiry as part of a process of reciprocal teaching and learning. Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey edit a volume that offers teaching stories and materials that address the gap between research and educating students. The contributors examine approaches that integrate exhibitions with archived artifacts, ......
Archival pedagogy prioritizes student-driven inquiry as part of a process of reciprocal teaching and learning. Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey edit a volume that offers teaching stories and materials that address the gap between research and educating students. The contributors examine approaches that integrate exhibitions with archived artifacts, ......
Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of "the beloved community" focused on the hoped-for new relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed after the success of a nonviolent movement. But the vision excluded, and sometimes still excludes, LGBTQIA people and Black women. The editors curate essays that see beloved community as a generous space that ......
Photographer Jim Newberry documented Chicago and its musicians for more than thirty years, shooting for the artists and labels that put the city's music scene on the map in the '90s, as well as for the Chicago Reader and other publications. Blending an expert eye with a talent for capturing truth beneath the veneer of performance, Newberry ......
St. Louis Craft Brewing in the Shadow of Anheuser-Busch
Once synonymous with Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis slowly embraced craft beer and became a powerhouse within the industry. Joel Bittle's history charts the growth of the Gateway City's craft brewing scene from its first convention-defying microbreweries in the 1990s through COVID-era difficulties and beyond. Interviews with the founders and ......
An Anthology of Works Celebrating Black Voices, Identities, and Personhood
Since 2015, the Tengo Sed ("I am thirsty") Writers' Retreats have brought together African-descended people of diverse backgrounds and across disciplines to create works in an emancipatory space of knowledge and community. For editors Yndia Lorick-Wilmot and Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Tengo Sed is the manifestation of the bonds created within the ......
A Developmental Framework for Whole-Body Integration
This book presents the Framework for Integration, a multi-faceted approach to understanding and refining human movement across daily life, the performing arts, and therapeutic contexts. Rooted in somatic and developmental perspectives, the Framework draws on the Alexander Technique, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Ken Wilber's Integral Theory, ......
