Flora Amelia Stone, born in 1852, was the youngest daughter of New England-born entrepreneur Amasa Stone and his wife, Julia Stone, who settled on Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, earned his fortune in rail
An examination of the medical experiences of African AmericansDuring the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans we
This revised and updated pictorial review of the nearly two-century history of the Jewish community tells the story of Jewish settlement and achievement in Northeast Ohio and continues in the spirit o
Arthur Mervyn has long puzzled students and scholars with its seeming diffuseness, resulting from its original serial publication. Critics agree, however, that the power of this novel lies not so much
Few geographical regions played a more critical role in the American Civil War than the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At no time did the Valley loom larger on the military landscape than in the late
Because naturalism seems antithetical to modernism and literary existentialism, slight attention has been given to the existence of a contemporary, or post-World War II, naturalism. Indeed, the very t
How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British-American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead
Washington’s Farewell Address and the development of the early republic In his presidential Farewell Address of 1796, George Washington presented a series of maxims to guide the construction of a wise
As this third volume of Wooster's history brings the College of Wooster into the twenty-first century, it finds a picture-book campus with extraordinary new facilities, national recognition for both I
Teaching Hemingway in his time Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway’s work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand
A volume of correspondence between a prominent father and his accomplished daughters Married three times, Salmon P. Chase lost four children in infancy. Two daughters survived to adulthood and were th
Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen’s post became one of vital importa
The first volume in an important series of guides to the works of Ernest Hemingway “The Reading Hemingway series of guides to Ernest Hemingway’s major works of ?ction, short stories, and novels are wr
Pattern of Circles is a success story, for its author and his country. John E. Dolibois was born December 4, 1918, in Luxembourg. His mother died weeks later, and he was raised by an older sister un
Translators Writing, Writing Translators is a collection of essays by some of the leading scholar-practitioners working in the field of translation studies. Inspired by the work of distinguished trans
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has cen
A collection of essays tracing seven decades of literary interaction between Hemingway and notable French authorsIn a 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay, Jean-Paul Sartre writes: “The greatest literary devel
Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His ti
"Joseph Reinhart has offered us yet another welcome opportunity to become acquainted with the German American soldier of the Civil War. The letters of Lieutenant Friedrich Bertsch and Chaplain Wilhelm
The first and only biography of one of America’s greatest conservationists -- Akron native and former U.S. Representative John F. Seiberling (1918–2008) grew up on his family’s estate overlooking Ohio
