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Reviews the book `The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 3: Menlo Park: The Early Years, April 1876-December 1877,' edited by Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, et al.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956,' edited by Clayborne Carson and others.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny Russell.

This paper involves a close reading of Herman Melville's poem “On the Photograph of a Corps Commander,” published in Melville's 1866 collection Battle-Pieces. Realizing that Melville's poem is one of the first descriptions (ekphrases) of a photograph in verse, the paper explores how Melville's poem uses physiognomy to describe the subject of the photograph: an American Civil War general, who is only identified as “the Corps Commander.” In this way, Melville's poem reflects the nineteenth-century philosophical and popular notions of photography. These notions came to regard photography as a Neoplatonic medium capable of recording and revealing the inner character of its subjects. Relying on these conceptions of photography, Melville's poem describes the photograph of the Corps Commander as having the power to reveal the Platonic absolute of American masculinity, and thus it comes to hail the photograph as a semi-sacred image that has the power to draw Anglo-Saxon American men into a common brotherhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While Niedecker's “life by water” is the subject of many of her poems, reflecting the experience of living on the flood-prone island of Black Hawk, Wisconsin, the water imagery that saturates many of her poems also becomes a way of reflecting upon time as it is experienced, of consciousness as process, of subjectivity as something pulled along by a temporal stream. The poetics of temporal flow suggests Niedecker's interest in exploring forms of experience that fall outside conscious attention and that point to her affinity with the modernist philosopher of time, Henri Bergson, whose Creative Evolution she read in 1955. This paper examines some of the short, concise poems Niedecker wrote in the 1950s, together with the later, looser-limbed poems such as “Paean to Place” where she turns away from the objectivist principles of com pression in order to produce fluid, malleable poems commensurate with the flow of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book `The Papers of George Catlett Marshall Volume 3: `The Right Man For the Job',' edited by Larry I. Bland and Sharon Ritenour Stevens. Focus on the letters, speeches and memoranda of General George Catlett Marshall.

Features the text of a paper presented as part of a panel entitled `Feminist Philosophy After Twenty Years' at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) on December 30, 1993 in Atlanta, Georgia. Factors that led to development of feminist philosophy; Indoctrination of women's inferiority to men in philosophical pursuits; Events leading to the birth of Hypatia journal.

Reviews books about American slavery which caused the beginnings of capitalism and the growth of the worldwide market. Includes `Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery,' by Robert William Fogel; `Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. Markets and Production: Technical Papers, Volume I,' edited by Robert William Fogel and Stanley Engerman.

Reviews the book `Exploration of the Etowah Site in Georgia: The Etowah Papers,' edited by Warren King Moorehead.

A review of the book "Ukrainian Immigrants in New York: Collision of Two Worlds," by Halyna Lemekh, is presented.