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Catching Stories
A Practical Guide to Oral History
By Donna M. DeBlasio, Charles F. Ganzert, David H. Mould, Stephen H. Paschen and Howard L. Sacks
In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and values—the stories of our lives.…
Incidental Architect
William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794–1828
While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the 1790s and early 1800s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city’s own.…
Making a Man
Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
By Gwen Hyman
Gruel and truffles, wine and gin, opium and cocaine. Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel addresses the role of food, drink, and drugs in the conspicuously consuming nineteenth century in order to explore the question of what makes a man of a certain class in novels of the period.…
On Poets and Poetry
William Pritchard’s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin, answered and interviewer’s question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, “Oh, for Christ’s sake, one doesn’t study poets! You read them, and think: That’s marvelous; how is it done?” Although Pritchard has been talking with student about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkin’s question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way it’s done, the “marvelous” creations of Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Robert Lowell, or Larkin himself.…
Outside the Ordinary
Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection
Edited by Amy Miller Dehan
One of the premier private collections of contemporary craft, the Nancy and David Wolf Collection features outstanding creations by the foremost artists working in craft media today, including Howard Ben Tré, Dale Chihuly, William Morris, Wendell Castle, David Ellsworth, Virginia Dotson, Michael Lucero, Michelle Holzapfel, Theman Statom, Ginny Ruffner, Akio Takamori, and Betty Woodman.…
Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar
The Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad
Zanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources have emerged that explain the reasons why. The current political impasse in the islands is a contest primarily over the question of whether to accept and sustain the Zanzibari Revolution of 1964.…
Twelve Best Books by African Women
Critical Readings
By Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita Allan
In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of “Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century.…
Wanted—Correspondence
Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier
Edited by Nancy L. Rhoades and Lucy E. Bailey
This unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women’s lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front.…
- Absent Man
The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt - Africa Writes Back
The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature - The African AIDS Epidemic
A History - An African American in South Africa
The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938
On Sale - African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet - African Entrepreneurship
Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone - The African Experience with Higher Education
- The African Genius
New Paperback Edition - African Gifts of the Spirit
Pentecostalism & the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement - African Islam and Islam in Africa
Encounters between Sufis and Islamists - African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
- African Sacred Groves
Ecological Dynamics and Social Change - African Underclass
Urbanisation, Crime, & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam - African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–1950
- After the Grapes of Wrath
Essays on John Steinbeck in Honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi - After the TRC
Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation - The AIA Guide to Columbus
- Alberta Alone
- Alberta and Freedom
- Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley
- Alexander the Great
A Novel Tr. from the Greek by Theodora Vasils - Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97 - All Flesh is Grass
The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming - All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification - Ambiguous Dancers of Fame
Collected Poems: 1945-1986 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990 - An American Colony
Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture - American Coverlets and Their Weavers
Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl - American Fantasies
Collected Poems, 1945-1981 - American Moralist
On Law, Ethics, and Government - American Pantheon
Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol - American Pogrom
The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics - An American Vein
Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature - America’s Collectible Cookbooks
The History, the Politics, the Recipes - America’s Sketchbook
The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre - An Amulet of Greek Earth
Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture - Amy Levy
Her Life and Letters
On Sale - Ancient Sisterhood
The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah - And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems - Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs
Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel - Annotated Bibliography of Jane Austen Studies, 1984-94
- Anthropology and Historiography of Science
- Antonin Artaud
Man of Vision - Apartheid’s Genesis
- The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree
Stories - Aquamarine Blue 5
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism - An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley
- Architecture in Cincinnati
An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City - Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984
- The Armillary Sphere
Poems - Arrows of Longing
The Correspondence between Anais Nin and Felix Pollak, 1952-1976 - Art and Empire
The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1860 - Art and Science of Book Publishing
- Art and the Reformation in Germany
- Art As Image
Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio
On Sale - Art in Context
Understanding Aesthetic Value - At the Palaces of Knossos
- Athens, Ohio
The Village Years - Aurora Leigh
- Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
- Awakening
- Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast
Pitting the Imaginary Worlds against the Actual - Azores
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