The "keys" provided in this richly informed book open the door to understanding the essence of nineteenth-century French lyric theater. The author illuminates the diverse elements that constitute opera by focusing his investigation around three main categories: composition and p…
"In Africa's Forest and Jungle is the memoir of Richard Henry Stone, a Civil War era Southern Baptist missionary, who served in what is now Nigeria during the late 1850s and again during the first years of the American Civil War. Stone published this work in 1899, when it became…
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth…