Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illi...

William Osborn Stoddard, Lincoln's "e;third secretary"e; who worked alongside John G. Nic...

In this book, Jasper Neel's sure-to-be-controversial resituating of Aristotle centers around thre...

From well-known battlefields, such as Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Appomattox, to lesser-known s...

This volume republishes forty-four essays, reviews, and miscellaneous pieces from 1939, 1940, and...

In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window to date...

For more than a century, Illinois has been home to a blossoming wine culture, yet winemaking in t...

Includes the complete text of The School and Society and The Educational Situation.

Born on the same day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were true contemporaries.Thoug...

In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines Amer...

Crooked politicians, gangsters, madams, and cops on the take: To Serve and Collect tells the stor...

John A. Logan, called "e;Black Jack"e; by the men he led in Civil War battles from the He...