Kent State University Press imprint: 593 books
Democracy and the American Civil War
Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...
Steel Valley Klan
The Ku Klux Klan in Ohio's Mahoning Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Jenkins argues that the Klan drew from all social strata in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1920s, contrary to previous theories that predominately lower middle-class WASPs joined the Klan because of economic competition with immigrants. Threatened by immigrant movement into their neighborhoods, these...
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet
Burt Green Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve...
Repealing National Prohibition
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S....
The Heroic Earth
Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision...
by Valerie Strong
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Through colorful, personal vignettes, landscape designer Valerie Strong presents and solves specific landscape problems, including the excavations of her own ponds and the creation of three award-winning gardens. She comments on her natural surroundings, even empty lots and roadsides. Strong examines...
Meade's Army
The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His private...
Kardiac Kids
The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Every longtime Cleveland sports fan knows about "Red Right 88", the play that ended the Browns' 1980 season. Trailing 14-12 late in the fourth quarter against the Oakland Raiders in an icy, windy playoff game, the Browns opted to eschew a field-goal attempt and go for a touchdown. Quarterback...
by Kevin Oberlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
“Kevin Oberlin’s deft sonnets, like the Texas chanteuse they describe, are lively and picaresque, ‘nervy’ and ‘coy,’ and they unreel their story with dazzling speed.”—Michael Collier
“In sonnets so marvelously subtle and fluid that we don’t even wake up to the fact that...
Above The Thunder
Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
An extraordinary memoir of an aviator’s service in the Pacific Theater
“If you’re looking for macho, fighting-man talk, you’ve picked up the wrong book. . . . This is just an honest narration of some of my experiences . . . during my service in the U.S. Army between 1940 and 1945.”
—Raymond...
by Mary E. Weems
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Energy, dynamic energy emanates from Mary Weems’ careful, observing eyes into her language. These poems offer immediacy, intelligent response, and rich repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.”—Diane Wakoski
The Heart's Truth
Essays on the Art of Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
“Cortney Davis has an uncanny ability to give voice to the profound act of everyday nursing and its power in transforming the lives of people. Somehow, she sees the shadows and ghosts that fill our bodies and souls and makes sense of them, showing us that the divide between patient and provider...
by Franklin Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
First published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1949, Franklin “Whitey” Lewis’s The Cleveland Indians begins with the organization’s early years as the Cleveland Forest Citys, covers the 1920 World Series victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers, and concludes with the excitement of the 1948 pennant...
Classic Tribe
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Indians History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
A countdown of the Cleveland Indians’ greatest games
It’s far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders’ views of their professional sports teams. While the Browns, Indians, and Cavaliers have certainly caused more than their fair share of frustration...