Takes a look at landscapes in the United States and Europe. This book analyzes Washington Beltway and the Blue Ridge... Læs mere
In Sight Unseen radio drama, a genre traditionally dismissed as popular culture, is celebrated as high art.
Covers the period from 1951, the year America entered the Korean War, to 1954, when the NAACP won its Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared that segregation was discrimination and thus unconstitutional.
While William Dean Howells is today best remembered as Mark Twain’s staunchest defender, Howells was, at his peak, the unrivaled man of letters in America: he had no contemporary equal.
In the SERIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT, an introduction to the philosophy of culture, written by the German social philosopher Hans... Læs mere
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Thomas Rodney as a land commissioner and a territorial... Læs mere
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem).
Focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, this book explores the role of music in the... Læs mere