Kent State University Press imprint: 593 books
Sword of the Border
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Jacob Jennings Brown may well be the most successful—yet forgotten—general of his time. Born into a Pennsylvania Quaker family on the eve of the American Revolution, Brown worked as a Quaker schoolteacher and surveyor and was a pioneer settler of northern New York before serving in the U.S. Army...
Entangling Alliances with None
American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1987
Written over a thirty-year period, the essays included in this volume develop one central theme: the completion of American isolationism in the formative years of the nation. Isolationism, in Kaplan’s view, is not to be taken as economic or cultural independence but as abstention from political...
by David Citino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
David J. Citino’s Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life.
Citino’s prose casts light on his poetry, and his poetry helps the reader understand his...
Edgar Huntly
Or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Often described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and...
Mysterious Medicine
The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists, phrenologists, and other pseudoscientists...
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire
Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regiment
Thousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a...
We Were the Ninth
A History of the Ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry April 17, 1861, to June 7, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
We Were The Ninth is a translation, carefully edited and thoroughly annotated, of an important Civil War regiment. The Ninth Ohio—composed of Ohio Germans mostly from Cincinnati—saw action at Rich Mountain and Carnifex Ferry in West Virginia, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Hoovers Gap, Nashville, Chattanooga,...
Gettysburg's Other Battle
The Ordeal of an American Shrine during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America's Civil War. By the turn of the next century, the battlefield was enshrined as a national park under the jurisdiction of the War Department. In 1913,...
Letters from the Spanish Civil War
A U.S. Volunteer Writes Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
A candid description of warfare at one of the first battlefields of World War II
Letters from the Spanish Civil War provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy U.S. neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defense of democracy...
by Warren Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
A facsimile reproduction of the 1952 history of the White Sox
Warren Brown’s team history of the Chicago White Sox originally appeared in 1952 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the...
by Robert D. Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999
Brings to life one of the most enigmatic, romantic, and ultimately tragic characters in American history
The life of nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast for lost causes John Louis O'Sullivan is usually glimpsed only in brief episodes, perhaps because the components...
Confronting the Horror
The Novels of Nelson Algren
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Because naturalism seems antithetical to modernism and literary existentialism, slight attention has been given to the existence of a contemporary, or post-World War II, naturalism. Indeed, the very term serves as a synonym for “old fashioned.” While understandable, this view has contributed to...
by Edward Micus
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“[Edward Micus’s The Infirmary is] a rarity: a mature debut, a first book of poems with time-tested virtues. . . . Unlike many of the Vietnam poems written at the time of the war or shortly thereafter—poems of anger or protest—Edward...
by Benjamin Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
“Reading The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, I had the sense of finding a poet I’d been looking for unawares: one who intertwines a survey of human sexuality (and gay sexuality at that) with theological questions; one who tackles ambitious poetic projects without sounding pretentious; one who writes...