Books published by University Press of Kansas

In addition to a wide variety of traditional sources, this volume provides two major categories of documentary materials hitherto unavailable to researchers. The first consists of extensive records from the combat journal of the German Sixth Army, which were only recently rediscovered and published. The second is a vast amount of newly released Soviet and Russian archival material.

This title argues that vengeance has fallen into disrepute without being seriously examined with respect to its real moral value. It investigates the use of vengeance themes in literature and popular culture, from the ""Iliad"" and ""Hamlet"" to film Westerns such as Clint Eastwood's ""Unforgiven"".

Examines the efforts of Harlem Renaissance artists and writers to create a hybrid expression of black identity that drew on their past while participating in contemporary American culture. This book investigates the Renaissance print culture, arguing that illustrations became the most timely and often most radical visual products of the movement.

During the Civil War women did a lot more than keep the home fires burning. This book presents a portrait of these courageous women, and also includes a biographical directory of nearly 400 women participants and dozens of Civil War documents attesting to women's role in the war.

This revisionist look at the twelfth and thirteenth presidents challenges much of previous scholarship. Elbert B. Smith disagrees sharply with traditional interpretation of Taylor and Fillmore.

An examination of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case Roth v. United States, which for the first time attempted to define what constitutes obscenity in American life and law. Explores this problematic ruling within the broad sweep of American social and legal history.