The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
My Father Spoke Finglish at Work
Finnish Americans in Northeastern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A regional view of Finnish immigration
In 1874 the first Finnish immigrants came to Northeast Ohio’s Lake Erie port towns to work on the docks loading coal or unloading iron ore from ships sailing the Great Lakes or to work on the railroads. As with most immigrant groups, the Finns clustered...
A Cleveland Legacy
The Architecture of Walker and Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Published in cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society
“Walker and Weeks was the most influential architectural firm in Ohio during the first half of the twentieth century. It transformed the image of Cleveland from that of an overgrown Victorian village into one of a progressive...
Unforgettable Ohioans
Thirteen Mavericks Who Made History on Their Own Terms
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Captivating portraits of extraordinary individuals
Famous Buckeyes are recognized by practically everyone. They range from presidents and inventors to aviators and astronauts. But other important Ohioans have been unfairly forgotten over the years. To find them, the authors of Unforgettable...
by Frederick Lieb
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
A facsimile reproduction of the 1946 history of the Detroit Tigers
Fred Lieb’s team history of the Detroit Tigers was originally published in1946 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives,...
Beyond the Call of Duty
Army Flight Nursing in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one medical air evacuation squadrons located throughout the world on both the European and Pacific fronts. Their work was not insignificant—over one million patients were evacuated...
Guide Book for the Tourist and Traveler over the Valley Railway
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Founded in 1871 by a group of entrepreneurs from Cleveland, Akron, and Canton, the Valley Railway paralleled the Cuyahoga River Valley, stretching from southeast Cleveland to Akron and then on to Canton and Valley Junction in Tuscarawas County. The Railway filled a need in the region by providing...
The Ohio & Erie Canal
A Glossary of Terms, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The people who lived and worked on and alongside the Ohio & Erie Canal had a vocabulary all their own. Originally published in 1995, this glossary was the first to list in one source the terms used to describe the boats, crews, locks, equipment, and canals.
Terry K. Woods provides a dictionary...
Thunder in the Heartland
A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Ohio can be a land of weather extremes. There are droughts followed by flood, arctic cold and soaring heat in one year, a Christmas warmed to 70 degrees and a Christmas white with thirty inches of snow. Ice jams on the Sandusky River and tornadoes across its southern counties, wind storms in Cleveland...
Containing Coexistence
America, Russia, and the "Finnish Solution," 1945-1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the “Finnish Solution,” 1945–1956, is the first full-scale study of Finland’s role in Soviet-American relations during the onset of the cold war. Cold war Finland was an enigma. Defeated by the Soviet Union in World War II, the country appeared...
Ohio Outback
Learning to Love the Great Black Swamp
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A collection that reveals the surprising variety of life in northwest Ohio
Ohio Outback is a unique compilation of writings by Claude Clayton Smith about his experiences of living in Ohio for the past twenty-two years. Smith offers a vibrant, humorous portrait of life that focuses on individuals...
WIXY 1260
Pixies, Six-packs, and Supermen
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
The story of one of Cleveland’s most popular and influential radio stations
Before FM radio and the commanding album rock stations of the 1970s, there was WIXY 1260, a tiny Northeast Ohio AM radio station that became an entertainment powerhouse. Three visionaries assembled a legendary staff...
The Business of Captivity
Elmira and Its Civil War Prison
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, and the Union prison at Elmira, New York, suffering was acute and mortality was high.
During its single year of existence,...
Holding the Line
The Third Tennesse Regiment 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
FLAVEL C. BARBER’S memoir of his service with the Third Tennessee provides a rare contemporary history of a Confederate regiment. Major Barber’s imprisonment after the surrender of Fort Donelson spurred him to take pen in hand. What began as a way to “while away the tedious hours of imprisonment”...
by Anthony Libby
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“The publication of The Secret Turning of the Earth announces the arrival of an American poet who moves through space and time—the Venice of 1740, Paris in 1900, 1948 Boston, present day Columbus—exercising a singular vision. These strong, ambitious poems are mapped out by means of what Anthony...