Civil twilight is the astronomical term for the minutes just before sunrise and just after sunset. If one took a snapshot, it would be impossible to tell whether the light was increasing or diminishing. The poems in Civil Twilight arise in this liminal space.

Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former’s 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum.

In what kind of public discourse do we want our students to engage? This text answers this question by providing a taxonomy, discussion, and evaluation of political theories that underpin democratic discourse, high-lighting the relationship between various models of the public sphere and rhetorical theory.

Explores women's complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women's efforts at taking on new kinds of work.