Kent State University Press imprint: 593 books
Finding Utopia
Another Journey Into Lost Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio’s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended—on roads less traveled—finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets...
The Boundaries Between Us
Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest
Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by examining lesser known forms of interaction between Euro-Americans and native peoples and their struggles...
Rust Belt Resistance
How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other for outsourcing jobs, events are too often framed with a kind of economic determinism that denies...
Charming the Bones
A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Born in 1911 to an unconventional, free-spirited artist mother and an eminent paleontologist father, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. She began her career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drawing fossil bones, and...
Ungraspable Phantom
Essays on Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference
The twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range...
by Virginia Benson, Richard Klein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A broad-based approach to preservation
After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is...
The Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.
Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. “If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Teaching Hemingway in his time
Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway’s work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand the pertinent works, definitions, and types of avant-gardism that inflected his art. The...
Donn Piatt
Gadfly of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A celebrated diplomat and editor whose outspoken opinions shaped views on the national agenda
Born in 1819 in Cincinnati, Donn Piatt died in 1891 at the Piatt Castles that still stand in western Ohio. He was a diplomat, historian, journalist, judge, lawyer, legislator, lobbyist, novelist, playwright,...
Cleveland's Harbor
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
On July 22, 1796, General Moses Cleaveland established the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as the port of entry for the Ohio frontier. He could not have foretold the developments that would turn this hostile marsh into Thriving economic and community center. With its 200th anniversary, the port, now...
Small Comforts
Essays at Middle Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older
“With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond’s Small Comforts is a stunning personal journey that begins with childhood dreams and adolescent fantasies and culminates in career anxieties...
James Monroe
Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, 1821-1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1998
Guided to Oberlin College by Charles G. Finney, the most prominent evangelical reformer in the nation, James Monroe attended the college when Oberlin served as the center of abolition and reform in the West. In Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, Catherine M. Rokicky explores this abolitionist...
My Story
Tom L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
In cooperation with The Western Reserve Historical SocietyProduced shortly before his death in 1911 and long since out of print, provides a rare personal insight into the career and philosophy of one of the most prominent figures of the American progressive Era. Influenced by the single tax proposals...