True crime : an American anthology

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hanging of John Billington / Pillars of salt / Murder of a daughter / account of a murder committed by Mr. J- Y-, upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 / crime more atrocious and horrible than any other" / record of crimes in the United States / recent tragedy / show of wax-figures" / Remarkable case of arrest for murder / Crime news from California / Roughing it / Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy fiend / Gibbeted / memorable murder / trial of Guiteau / murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" / Hunting human game / Hossack murder / Murder ballads : Poor Naomi ; Stackalee ; murder of Grace Brown ; Belle Gunness ; murder at Fall River ; Trail's end -- Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, murderess / Hell benders, story of a wayside tavern / eternal blonde / gangs of New York / mystery of the hansom cab / Execution / More and better psychopaths / Dreiser sees error in Edwards defense / Sex and the all-American boy / Miss Ferber views "vultures" at trial / Ditch of doom / sort of genius / Veteran kills 12 in mad rampage on Camden Street / Butcher's dozen / case of the scattered Dutchman / trial of Ruby McCollum / Black Dahlia / life and death of Caryl Chessman / shambles of Ed Gein / Superman's crime: Loeb and Leopold / Eight girls, all pretty, all nurses, all slain / pied piper of Tucson / stranger with a camera / Charlie Manson's home on the range / Then it all came down / "Son of Sam" / Turner-Stompanato killing : a family affair / Medea of Kew Gardens Hills / My mother's killer / Young love / Nightmare on Elm Drive

The Mission : inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The math myth : and other STEM delusions

Fullmetal alchemist. 4

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi. English

Full metal alchemist

Viz graphic novel

Viz graphic novel.

The halo graphic novel

HGN

The last voyage of the Infinite Succor / Armor testing / Breaking quarantine / Second sunrise over New Mombasa / Gallery -- Bungle's bullshit bluster.

Shake it up : great American writing on rock and pop from Elvis to Jay Z

Literature suppressed on social grounds

Social grounds

Facts on File library of world literature

Banned books

Banned books (2006)

Facts on File library of world literature.

The American stage : writing on theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner

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Library of America ;

From Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. / Prologue for the Opening of the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia / from History of the American Theatre / from Domestic Manners of the Americans / Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples / On Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion / The Gladiator-Mr. Forrest-Acting ; Miserable State of the Stage ; The Old Bowery / The Astor Place Riot / from Mimic Life; or, Before and Behind the Curtain / The Menken ; The Model Artists ; The Minstrel Show / from The Journals / About Nudity in Theatres / from The Genial Showman: The Church in the Theatre and the Theatre in the Church / Notes on the Theatres ; from A Small Boy and Others / Clara Morris / The Art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet / Uncle Tom's Cabin ; Antony and Cleopatra (1) ; Antony and Cleopatra (2) / from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Theatres, Actors and Audience / Melodrama / My Most Successful Play / Stage Struck / Some American Dramatic Material ; Hamlet / "The Illusion of the First Time" in Drama / Mr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage / Mrs. Fiske on Ibsen the Popular / Frank Wedekind / The Painter and the Stage / Mimi Aguglia as Salome / The Jest

Mr. Belasco Explains ; Susan Glaspell / Abie's Irish Rose Review and Bulletins / I Gaspiri-"The Upholsterers": A Drama in Three Acts / The Dæmonic in the American Theatre / Burlesque Shows / The Negro and the American Stage / the old trouper / The Audience Emotion ; On Vaudeville ; Eugene O"Neill / The Days of Jig Cook ; Alla Nazimova / James A. and Katharine Herne / Cain's Warehouse / Trouble with the Angels / from Of Time and the River / Waiting for Santy / Our Town ; Standards in Drama Criticism / The Man Who Came to Dinner with George Kaufman Directing / from Arena / Some Thoughts on Playwriting / Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea / A Streetcar Called Success / Tennessee Williams ; The Famous "Method" ; from The Theatre of the Thirties / Even as You and I / Terry Helburn / Folklore on Forty-Seventh Street ; from Bentley on Brecht / The American Theater / The Life and Death of Vaudeville / Barns / Author and Director: A Delicate Situation / Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet ; The Commercialites ; Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House / "Me tink me hear sounds in de night" / Which Theater Is the Absurd One? / The Becks' Living Theatre / Boredom in the Theatre / El Teatro Campesino / Marat/Sade/Artaud / A Short Statement on Street Theatre / Notes on the New Theater / from The Season / from Notes on a Cowardly Lion / from Run-Through: A Memoir / from A Personal History of the American Theatre / The Death of Broadway / Gay Theatre / "Dolly" Goes Away / Heidi Chronicled / The Chitlin Circuit / The Problem Play / from A Director Prepares: Terror / Kushner on Miller

War no more : three centuries of American antiwar and peace writing

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"The tree of great peace" / The journal of John Woolman / A plea for the poor / "I counted none my enemy" / "An odd and singular man" / A plan of a peace-office for the United States / The book of Mormon / War / Declaration of sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention, held in Boston, September 18, 19, & 20, 1838 / The arsenal at Springfield / The term non-resistance / Speech delivered at the anti-war meeting, in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1847 / Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War / Civil disobedience / Nov. 30 to an absent wife / The record of a Quaker conscience : Cyrus Pringle's diary / Shiloh / Reconciliation / A harvest of death / Appeal to womanhood throughout the world / Chickamauga / War is kind / Battle hymn of the republic (brought down to date) / The war prayer / The moral equivalent of war / Christians at war / Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter / Heroes / The war and intellectuals / Below the battle / Down by the river-side / To the president of Wellesley College / Toward human unity or beyond nationalism / Address to the jury / An experiment in conscience / The Stierheim case / Scott Nearing reprieves democracy / "There will come soft rains" / Personal reactions during war / 1923 : in Europe / Dissent in United States vs. Schwimmer / "i sing of Olaf glad and big" / On trial / Conscientious objector / Johnny got his gun / A field of broken stones / Letter to President Roosevelt / To Local Board No. 63 / A petition to the President of the United States / We go on record-- / Wailing shall be in all streets / One war is enough / Epitaph : 1945 / The conscientious objector / To meet a friend / The Danbury story / Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949 / Last night I had the strangest dream / August 2026 : there will come soft rains / A decent respect for human intelligence / Why I am sailing into the Pacific bomb-test area / Two votes against war : 1917, 1941 -- Zen telegrams / Where have all the flowers gone? / A matter of freedom / Southern peace walk : two issues or one? / The strategy of tax refusal / The future of nonviolence / The war on Vietnam / The I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag / Statement made on 12/21/65 to the Federal Grand Jury / Statement on American policy in Vietnam / Necessities (I) / The moral outrage of Vietnam / Of late / Life at war / Making peace / Beyond Vietnam / Counting small-boned bodies / The War Crimes Tribunal / A young pacifist / A causerie at the military-industrial / The armies of night / Mobilization! / Dow shalt not kill / When the war is over / Nonviolence does not - cannot - mean passivity / War and the crisis of language / What would you do if? / Poem / "The business of America is war and it is time for a change" / The liberation of our people / The trial of the Catonsville Nine / I should be proud / I refuse / Statement of John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War / Born on the Fourth of July / Winners and losers / Terminal colloquy / Cop tales : devastation / Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement / "I was told it was necessary" / Revolutionary violence : a dialogue / Born again radical / The IRS' plan for the hereafter / "One race, the human race" / "Like the elders say" / The role of the military in the nuclear age / Pacifist : or, My war and Louis Lepke -- Calvin and Hobbes : "How come we play war and not peace?" / To: Internal Revenue Service / War resister's song / 2527th birthday of the Buddha / On the rainy river / An atlas of the difficult world / Democracy from the heart / The truth / The tracks / Jerusalem / The bombing of Baghdad / Hearts on fire / Fighting war / Not in our son's name / Speech on House Joint Resolution 64 / A pure, high note on anguish / Weighing the costs of waging war in Iraq / No more unto the breach / America's image in the world / March of death / Driving the bus : after the anti-war march / Baghdad / Sadiq / Road from ar Ramadi / I lost my son to a war I oppose. We were both doing our duty / For the fifty (who made PEACE with their bodies) / That particular village / Why I'm a pacifist : the dangerous myth of the good war / An interview with Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ / An honorable discharge / I cast my hook, I decide to make peace

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 : an anthology

Doubleday/Anchor AO-73

Negro poets of the U.S.A. Bars Fight / An Evening Thought / His Excellency General Washington ; On Imagination / On Liberty and Slavery / Epigram / The Slave Auction ; Let the Light Enter / Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle / The Feet of Judas / The Way-side Well / Miss Melerlee / A Litany at Atlanta / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; An Indignation Dinner / O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Lift Every Voice and Sing / Sympathy ; Dawn ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; Little Brown Baby ; A Death Song ; Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes ; Compensation / Sonnet / The House of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers ; White Magic: An Ode / The Teacher ; Tuskegee / A Winter Twilight ; For the Candle Light ; When the Green Lies over the Earth ; Tenebris / My Hero / Life Long, Poor Browning ... ; Letter to My Sister ; At the Carnival ; Lines to a Nasturtium ; For Jim, Easter Eve / Enigma ; La Vie C'est la Vie ; Dead Fires ; Oblivion / Morning Light ; Arctic Tern in a Museum ; Little Birches / The Heart of a Woman ; Youth ; Remember ; The Suppliant ; Old Black Men ; Interracial ; I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night ; Recessional ; My Little Dreams / San Francisco ; Villanelle of Washington Square ; View Carré / Rulers : The Banjo Player ; The Scarlet Woman ; Tired ; Aunt Jane Allen ; When I Die ; The Lonley Mother ; Who Is That A-walking in the Corn? / Status Quo ; At Early Morn / The Tropics in New York ; After the Winter ; Spring in New Hampshire ; A Song of the Moon ; Harlem Shadows ; America ; White Houses ; If We Must Die ; Baptism ; Flame-heart / Banking Coal ; The Blue Meridian / Supplication ; And What Shall You Say? / Dark Symphony ; Lamda ; Do / On Seeing Two Brown Boys in a Catholic Church ; Kid Stuff ; Toast ; Letters Found Near a Suicide / The Craftsman ; McDonogh Day in New Orleans / Nocturne Varial ; Dream Song ; Transformation / The Elevator Man Adheres to Form ; Best Loved of Africa ; Dance of the Abakweta / After Winter ; Old Lem ; Foreclosure ; Remembering Nat Turner ; Sister Lou / The Mask ; Solace ; Joy ; Interim

I, Too, Sing America ; Dream Variation ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to Son ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Personal ; Havana Deams ; Harlem Sweeties ; Merry-Go-Round ; Let America Be America Again ; I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted ; Song for a Suicide ; Harlem ; Birmingham Sunday ; Motto ; Cultural Exchange / Sonnets ; Lines Written At the Grave of Aleandre Dumas / A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Miracles ; Nocturne at Bethesda ; Southern Mansion ; Length of Moon ; The Return ; Idolatry ; Close Your Eyes! ; Golgotha Is a Mountain ; A Note of Humility ; The Daybreakers ; Nocturne of the wharves ; God Give to Men / Epitaph for a Bigot ; Green Valley / For a Poet ; The Wise ; For a Lady I Know ; Incident ; Yet Do I Marvel ; Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds ; From the Dark Tower / The Resurrection ; My Angel ; And One Shall Live in Two ; Muse in Late November ; She Said ... / Poet ; Haven ; Appoggiatura ; Benedicion / Four Glimpses of Night ; I Sing No New Songs ; Robert Whitmore ; Flowers of Darkness / Northboun̕ / Forgotten Dreams ; On the Death of a Child / Summer Matures ; Fulfillment ; Magalu ; Remember Not ; Invocation ; The Road / Face of Poverty / Urgency / Adjuration ; Tumult / Plans ; A Young David; Birmingham ; Words / Without Name / Heart of the Woods / Freedom in Mah Soul ; Western Town / A Boy's Need ; Crossing a Creek ; Willow Bend and Weep ; On Calvary's Lonely Hill / The Letter / O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; A Ballad of Remembrance ; Runagate Runagate ; Frederick Douglass / Creole Girl / Six O'Clock ; Rag Doll and Summer Birds ; Counterpoint ; Epitaph for a Negro Woman ; The Decision ; Poem for My Brother Kenneth / Memorial Wreath ; Legacy: My South / Where Have You Gone? ... ; If There Be Sorrow

Molly Means ; We Have Been Believers ; For My People ; October Journey ; Harriet Tubman ; For Mary McLeod Bethune / This Hour / Be Daedalus / Ultimate Equality ; Basic / The Fishes and the Poet's Hands / Kitchenette Building ; The Birth in a Narrow Room ; "pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps" ; First Fight. Then Fiddle ; The Wall / Here and Now / Prayer ; Another Day / To Satch ; What Bright Pushbutton? / To an Avenue Sport / Blues for Bessie ; Two Leaqn Cats ... ; Young Poet ; Sunset Horn / Journey to a Parallel ; The African Affair / Portrait Philippines ; Sonnet / Time and Tide / Song ; Notes for a Movie Script ; Letter Across Doubt and Distance ; And on This Shore -- Picnic: The Liberated / Paternal ; Mae's Rent Party / A Folding and Unfolding / Church Burning: Mississippi ; Black Muslim Boy in a Hospital ; Son To a Brown Girl / Refugee ; Midway ; Mortality / A Private Letter to Brazil ; The Map / Clubwoman ; Jungle / In Spite of All This Much Needed Thunder / Christophe / For William Edward Burghardt DuBois on his Eightieth Birthday / Black Man's Feast / Jazz / Miles' Delight / I've Got a Home in that Rock / Three Kings / To Vanity / Dream / Madhouse / Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-way Ticket to France / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Epistrophe / Suburbia / Afterwards, They Shall Dance ; Cincophrenicpoet ; Benediction / Letter from a Wife / A Juju of My Own / The Feral Pioneers-for Dancer / Poems; Birmingham 1962-1964 ; Moths ; Birmingham ; Alabama / Cities and Seas ; Ending / Floodtide ; Othello Jones dresses for dinner ; 18,000 feet ; eclipse / Just Making it (Blood for Sale) ; The Worker / Look at That Gal / Gift / Brainwashing Dramatized / Sketches of Harlem ; Downtown-Boy Uptown / Memorandum

Tributary poems by non-Negroes -- The Little Black Boy / To Toussaint L'Ouverture / The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point / The Slave's Dream / The Farewell / Stanzas on Freedom / "Formerly a Slave" / The Runaway Slave ; The Wounded Person ; The Drayman ; Ethiopia Saluting the Colors / Toussaint L'Ouverture / The Bird and the Tree / Mammy Hums ; Jazz Fantasia / The Congo / Defeat / Echoes of Childhood ; Uncle Jim ; Delphy / How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry / Porgy, Maria, and Bess / The Stong Swimmer / Elegy on a Nordic White Protestant / Arthur Mitchell / Upstairs Downstairs / Negroes ; Lynched Negro ; Poem to Negro and Whites / Small Colored Boy in the Subway / Little White Schoolhouse Blues / The World Looks On / Creed / John Brown's Prayer / Sonnets at Christmas (II) / Last Impression of New York ; In War ; Big Man ; Pico Della Mirandola ; Things of the Spirit ; Pen Hy Cane / A Communication to Nancy Cunard / They Are Ours / Boogie-Woogie Ballads / Street Scene -- 1946 / Slave Story / Norris Dam ; Daphne ; On a Picture by Pippin, Called "The Den" ; Harpers Ferry / Singing in the Dark / My South / Negro Spiritual / Songs for a Colored Singer / Government Injunction / Nice Day for a Lynching / Lenox Avenue ; The Castle / The Trial / Recapitulations XI ; The Southerner / Say Good-bye to Big Daddy / To a Negro Boy Graduating ; Countee Cullen / Bim Bam / Juncture / Recessional for the Class of 1959 of a School for Delinquent Negro Girls / Buckdancer's Choice / Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets / Requiem for "Bird" Parker / The Memory of Boxer Benny (Kid) Paret / Biographical notes Author Biographies Author index First line index.