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He was raised in a culture of respect and responsibility-taught to go to college, get a good job, and then provide for a family of his own. But for Dennis V. Neely, the struggle to reach nursing school graduation was only the beginning.

He had a debt to repay, redeemable only through active service with the United States Army. And when the call of duty brought him from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, to the harrowing conditions of the Vietnam War, it set the stage for one of the most difficult periods of Neely's life.

In "A Reluctant Servant," the Army veteran...

In 1863, Union soldiers from Illinois threatened to march from the battlefield to their state capital. Springfield had not been seized by the Rebels--but the state government was in danger of being captured by the Democrats.

In The Union Divided, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., vividly recounts the surprising story of political conflict in the North during the Civil War. Examining party conflict as viewed through the lens of the developing war, the excesses of party patronage, the impact of wartime elections, the highly partisan press, and the role of the...

The Civil War is often portrayed as the most brutal war in America's history, a premonition of twentieth-century slaughter and carnage. In challenging this view, Mark E. Neely, Jr., considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limits that guided the conduct of American soldiers and statesmen.

Neely begins by contrasting Civil War behavior with U.S. soldiers' experiences in the Mexican War of 1846. He examines Price's Raid in Missouri for evidence of deterioration in the restraints imposed by the customs of war; and in a brilliant analysis of...

After signing a contract to teach history to children of the American Occupation Forces in Nagoya, Japan, Ms. Meg Lowe traveled out of Missouri for the first time. After arriving by ship in July 1949, Meg spent time both in adventurous sight-seeing in the exotic land and in socializing with fellow Americans, both singles and couples. Having grown up with a deputy sheriff dad and his sensitive detective work, her background alerted her to nefarious dealings, sometimes happening at her very feet.