Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography ...

Over the past sixty-five years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day developed into a sign and symbol; as a word it carries with it a series of ideas and associations that have come to symbolize different things to different people and nations. As such, the commemorative activities linked to the battle offe...

How, as historians, should we 'read' a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use.The book begins with a theoretical 'Thinking about Film' section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger 'Using Film' segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into...

As early as 1892, Moncure Conway, the author of the first scholarly Paine biography, noted that whilst Paine’s life up to 1809 was certainly fascinating, his subsequent life – that is, his afterlife – was even more thrilling. Vilified by Theodore Roosevelt as a "filthy little atheist," yet employed by Ronald Reagan in his campaign to make America "great again," Paine’s words and ideas have been both celebrated and dismissed by generations of politicians and presidents. An Englishm...

Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who had fought and fallen for freedom. Some of these monuments, plaques, stained-glass windows and other commemorative signposts were established by agents of the US government, partly in the service of transatlantic diplomacy; some were built by American veterans' groups mourning lost comrades; and some were provided by grateful and grieving European communities. As th...

Time: Late 50s. Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Korea is still in the air. Vietnam is not even considered. Middle East oil is where likely choice of trouble is. Young Sgt. Airborne from a military family. It's Pat. The army is just beginning to be really integrated. Lots of prejudice.This is a coming-of-age 'docu-drama,' with some intimation of things to come and an action drama full tempo but the same much ado about small things with no on-screen deaths and a previous era's excitement...

A Cowboy Named Emmet is a book about a cowboy who saw the early to mid-20th century changes that came to the west he loves as the California he was raised in becomes fenced in: And his move to work in Elko, Nevada were there was still the open range life. The book is by his son with a bit of rhythm and a lot of doggerel. Sam Edwards lived in the Sierras not quite in Nevada or the old time ways.

Sam Edwards disappeared from New York after editing and publishing Second Coming magazine—the first of the slick-paper cultural and political magazines that published the works of I.B. Singer, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Robert Rauschenburg, Susan Sontag and many others—edited Arts magazine and published and edited the New York Free Press.His play about capital investment in capital punishment, "The Great American Light War," was published in the Drama Review, and produced in reg...

This book is a collection of mainly poetry, but two sermons and a few short stories are interspersed throughout. Most of the work is based on life's real experience. Some of the poetry is written to fit music in public domain. Many of them are exciting as they focus on the Lord's Supper. Others are also based on music, but I do not know their copyright status. The works is to honor Christ and the Christians who supported me through the years. These Christians brought Christ to life for me....