University of Missouri Press

A rich body of mythology and literature has grown around the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara or ""marriage of sovereignty"". This book expl...

Tells the story of the first nation-wide economic collapse to strike the US. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust,...

Traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory - Ohio, Indiana, and Il...

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

Reducere. This collection gathers major poems from Michelle Boisseau's previous collections A Sunday in God Years, Trembling Air, Understory, No Private Life...

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Uppe...

Reducere. John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward ...

Reducere. Edwin Thompson Denig, for more than twenty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri and married to an Assiniboine woman, was an acute and objective...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph G. Rosa"James Butler Hickok, generally called 'Wild Bill, ' epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, hal...

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a privat...

Reducere. In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway...

Reducere. Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize-Center for Great Plains Studies (finalist) Spur Award-Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book-Western Writers...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

Reducere. DescriptionA curriculum guide designed to supplement the Emmy-Award-winning documentary Oh Freedom After While, The Missouri Sharecropper Protest o...