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James Madison's record of the Constitutional Convention traces day by day the debates held from May to September, 1787, and presents the only complete picture we have of the strategy, interests, and ideas of the founding fathers at the Convention itself.In

In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of progress, we might expect to look with confidence to the scientific disciplines of political science, sociology, and economics to solve the problems of our civilization. We might also look to the older disciplines of religion and ethics to determine our values and to tell us what we ought to do. But the sad truth is...

Ma Ma Lay's 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma's foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change.

Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, professor of literature and the founding chair of global studies, is currently faculty emerita, Sarah Lawrence College. Her publications include Juju Fission: Women¿s Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-between and Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women. ¿Tuzyline Jita Allan teaches at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of the award-winning book ...

The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest.

The novels and nonfiction work of writer Frank Waters stand as a monument to his genius and to his lifetime quest to plumb the spiritual depths that he found for himself in the landscape and people of his beloved Southwest.

The death of her father begins Dorothy Weil's search for what causes the family's "spinning off in all directions". She embarks on a river odyssey, travelling by steamboat, towboat and flatboat. This story takes the reader back into a world few ever glimpse, that of America's river boats.

This collection of poems presents an often stark and startling vision of the way we live, the places we inhabit, and the relics we make to comfort ourselves.

She was the daughter of a circuit judge and state senator. He was the youngest son of Virginia's Civil War governor and a state legislator himself. This is the story of Green-lee and Katie Letcher, told through their long and passionate correspondence over the trial of their 50 years together.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduced to the American public by William Dean Howells, was the first native-born African American poet to achieve national and international fame. This work brings together new and uncollected short stories, essays, and poems.

In the 1790s, the United States Congress solidified its role as the national legislature. The ten essays in this work show the mechanisms by which this bicameral legislature developed its institutional identity.

Powerful currents of religious revival and political and social reform swept nineteenth-century America. Many people expressed their radical religious and social ideals by creating or joining self-contained utopian communities.

Discusses the history, wildlife, and culture of the western United States and describes the way of life of the cowboys, outlaws, pioneers, cattlemen, and Indians of the region.

One of the century's most enduring American writers, Zane Grey left a legacy to our national consciousness that far outstrips the literary contribution of his often predictable plots and recurring themes. How did Grey capture the attention of millions of readers and promote the Western fantasy that continues to occupy many of the world's leisure hours? This study assesses the Zane Grey phenomenon by examining Grey's romantic novels in the cont...

Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.

In 1967, Yvor Winters wrote of Helen Pinkerton, "she is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority." Unfortunately, in 1967 mastery of poetic style was not, by and large, considered a virtue, and Pinkerton's finely crafted poems were neglected in favor of more improvisational and flashier talents.

In this novel of the mestizo or mixed-blood, Frank Waters completes the Southwestern canvas begun in The Man Who Killed the Deer and People of the Valley. Set in a violent Mexican border town, the story centers on Barby, a tormented mestizo, Guadalupe, the mestiza 'percentage-girl, ' and Tai-Ling, the serene yogi.

Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts. Some are written: memos, rejection letters, even resignation letters. Some are not: anecdotes, protests, jokes, parodies.All of these texts have in common the imperative of disguise, represented as the m...

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In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been closest to her: relationship, creativity, the struggle for wholeness, the unveiling of a woman, the artist as magician, women reconstructing the world, moving from the dream outward, and experiencing our lives to the fullest possible extent.