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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
Roman republican theatre Roman republican theatre Gesine Manuwald "Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus an… OL15884237W
Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history Margot Finn,Michael Lobban "Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception i… OL16982490W
The English novel in history, 1700-1780 The English novel in history, 1700-1780 John J. Richetti The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re… OL1830261W
Fortunes of history Fortunes of history Kelley, Donald R. "In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century" - the years from the French Revolution to those just after the … OL2640634W
The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle Jonathan S. Burgess "Much of our understanding of the mythological tradition surrounding the Trojan War comes from Homer. Although the Iliad and Odyssey describe only the last years of this conflict, for centuries these… OL7795683W
The Civil War The Civil War Janet Cassidy This sample unit uses literature to teach the story of the Civil War. Six core books -- two works of historical fiction (Across five Aprils / by Irene Hunt ; Bull Run / by Paul Fleischman), two info… OL8139068W
The Armature of Conquest The Armature of Conquest Beatriz Pastor Bodmer The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing o… OL8443648W