Kent Press: 598 books
by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Beyond the Velvet Curtain, Karen Kovacik illustrates Czeslaw Miloxz’s dictum that “the purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” Peopled with such diverse characters as Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, Kafka’s father, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos...
The Righteous Remnant
The House of David
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and ’30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious...
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with...
The Lincoln Assassination Riddle
Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The...
The Ohio Politics Almanac
Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Roughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “I think there is only one thing in the world I can’t understand, and that is Ohio politics.” If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have understood Ohio politics, but it wouldn’t have been for lack...
Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929
Diplomacy in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A comprehensive history of the relationship between the United States and reformist Uruguay
Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestled in the corner of South America between Argentina and Brazil, is scant when compared to that...
The Alternate History
Refigurng Historical Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time examines alternate history science fiction using the eschatological, genetic, entropic, and teleological historical models. Hellekson’s original approach explains much of the appeal of alternate history and distinguishes among the many varieties...
Broken Glass
Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century
“The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America’s renaissance figures....
by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) is one of the most important and highly respected figures in the history of geology. This in-depth biography documents his career and life from birth to retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
With...
Trilateralism and Beyond
Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma During and After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint
The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy of that era remains unresolved on the divided Korean peninsula, which still presents a clear...
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...
The Pursuit of Public Power
Political Culture in Ohio, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Many of the political institutions that would dominate 19th-century America (and the Midwest in particular) originated and first evolved in Ohio. The Pursuit of Public Power explores the origins and nature of political culture here from the American Revolution until the Civil War. Twelve essays examine...
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...
Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique
From the Old South to the New South and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) rose to great heights as a newspaper publisher, political leader, and ambassador, but his life is surrounded by controversy to this day. Charges that he contributed to the death of his second wife, an heiress whose bequest of five million dollars helped purchase the...