Before Mark Twain became a national celebrity with his best-selling The Innocents Abroad, he was ...

Mark Twain has always been America's spokesman, and his comments on a wide range of topics contin...

The 7th Infantry Regiment's motto, 'Willing and Able,' speaks volumes about its past. Throughout ...

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an a...

This engaging work by legal scholar Arnold Rochvarg presents a narrative history of the mid-1960s...

Canfield Drive

The late poet Joan Yeagley's wry Midwestern voice engages Ovid's legacy as well as life in Missou...

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with such celebrated production...

The third and final volume of Kevin Hymel's Patton's War trilogy finds Lieutenant General George ...

All along the river, from the front porches of Hannibal to the neighborhoods of St Louis to the c...

In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In ...

In this major new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-thi...