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Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion
$30.00On April 5, 1918, as American troops fought German forces on the Western Front, German American coal miner Robert Prager was hanged from a tree outside Collinsville, Illinois, having been…
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Language Diversity in the Classroom
$35.00It’s no secret that, in most American classrooms, students are expected to master standardized American English and the conventions of Edited American English if they wish to succeed. Language Diversity…
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Leadership
$35.00Volume 6 of the Leadership Symposia—sponsored by the Department of Administrative Sciences and College of Business Administration at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale—charts the state of the field of leadership through…
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
$49.00This new edition of Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, answers the need for a complete, reliable text. The book…
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Liberating Voices
$55.00During the 1920s and 1930s at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, working-class women were educated in the liberal arts and instructed in writing to assume more powerful…
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Life and Letters of General W. H. L. Wallace
$19.50Originally published in 1909, this biography by Isabel Wallace recounts the life of her adoptive father, the little-recognized William Hervy Lamme Wallace, the highest-ranking Union officer to fall at the…
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Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567 – 1642
$50.00R. B. Graves examines the lighting of early modern English drama from both historical and aesthetic perspectives. He traces the contrasting traditions of sunlit amphitheaters and candlelit hall playhouses, describes…
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Lincoln and Freedom
$34.95Lincoln’s reelection in 1864 was a pivotal moment in the history of the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation had officially gone into effect on January 1, 1863, and the proposed…
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Lincoln’s Journalist
$30.00Michael Burlingame presents anonymous and pseudonymous newspaper articles written by Lincoln’s assistant personal secretary, John Hay, between 1860 and 1864. In the White House, Hay became the ultimate insider, the…
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Lincoln’s New Salem
$14.95Thomas tells the story of the village where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. His three-part examination of the village often referred to as Lincoln’s “Alma Mater” features the…
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Line Drives
$19.95“We wait for baseball all winter long,” Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, “or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create…
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Literacy and Racial Justice
$55.00In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Catherine Prendergast draws on a combination of insights from legal studies and literacy studies to…