Kent Press: 598 books
The Imperfect Revolution
Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns
On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills...
Red River Campaign
Politics and Cotton in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
First published in 1958, Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs, and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864.
In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles...
You Can't Be Mexican
You Talk Just Like Me
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A firsthand account of the immigrant experience in America
Frank Mendez, a child of Mexican immigrants begins his memoir with the story of his father’s harrowing migration from Mexico to Texas in 1920 as he escaped from Zapata’s guerrrillos and continues with his story of growing up in...
A Light and Uncertain Hold
A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Curiosity piqued by two poems written by his great-great-grandmother initiated David Thackery’s scholarly exploration into the history of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the wartime history of Champaign County, Ohio, from which it was recruited.
Not only a military history, A...
by Larry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were...
A Colony Sprung from Hell
Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744-1794
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The early settlement of the region around Pittsburgh was characterized by a messy collision of personal, provincial, national, and imperial interests. Driven by the efforts of Europeans, Pennsylvanians, Virginians, and Indians, almost everyone attempted to manipulate the clouded political jurisdiction...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases
On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where...
Lost Ohio
More Travels into the Haunted Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A fascinating look at Ohio’s forgotten history
Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swallowed pioneers’ wagons, a haunted prison, a faded German utopia, a town where they still chase horse thieves, a marriage mecca, a village where...
by Lisa Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Lisa Coffman is a major poet in the making. Imagine a voice that combines hear-of-American brooding like James Wright’s with a shaded elegance like Elizabeth Bishop’s. Imagine Whitman’s spirit somewhere in the vicinity. Imagine a love of small towns ringed by mountains, a shrewd ear for lonely...
The Will To Believe
Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
A fresh analysis of Woodrow Wilson’s national security strategy during World War I
“By addressing all sides of the American debate on national security questions, and by showing both the complexity and the nuance that characterized that debate, The Will to Believe fills a major gap in the...
Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1996
This comprehensive guide to the early art and artists of Ohio is a compendium of hard-to-find information. The result of more than twelve years of research in community archives, newspapers, business directories, census returns, genealogical records, and manuscripts, Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900 is...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Ernest Hemingway is a writer we often associate with particular places and animals; Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Spain's countryside, East Africa's game reserves, Cuba's blue water, and Idaho's sagebrush all come to mind. We can easily visualize the iconic images of Hemingway with fly rod bent by hefty...
Hidden Hemingway
Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Thinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling ad- ventures. However, fully understanding this outsized international author means returning to his place of birth. Hidden Hemingway presents highlights from the extraordinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The profound impact of Cuba on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work
Ernest Hemingway resided in Cuba longer than he lived anywhere else in the world, yet no book has been devoted to how his life in Cuba influenced his writing. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works corrects this omission by presenting...