Mary E. Frederickson

Inspired by the story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the 19th century to the 21st....more

Martin P. Johnson

Four score and seven years ago....  Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history?  And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told....more

Andrew Cayton

In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."  Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself....more

Charlotte Newman Goldy

Medieval women's history is entering a new stage.  In the last thirty years medievalists have recovered the sources about women, and have moved women to the foreground of narratives to view society from their vantage point....more

Stephen N. Norris

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history....more

Amanda Kay McVety

The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its transformation from a concept into a tool of foreign policy, and ends with the current debate about foreign aid's utility....more

Robert W. Thurston.  a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee's history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today....more