In this richly drawn novel, Amy Belding Brown explores what it is to be an outsider looking in, and she sheds light on one of Dickinson's closest confidantes—perhaps the person who knew the mysterious poet best—whose quiet act changed ...

Examines the life of Louisa May Alcott, discussing her family, relationships, works, rejection of marriage, and other related topics.

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980.

This text provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address those components, and the procedures to follow when conducting evaluations.

In the 1890's, L. Frank Baum took the advice of his mother-in-law, suffragist leader Matilda Gage, and turned his attention to trying to sell the stories he'd been telling to his sons and their friends.

Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

This portrait of a marriage between a young, strong-minded girl and one of America's greatest philosophers joins the ranks of bestsellers like Girl with a Pearl Earring and Ahab's Wife

With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too-perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own.