Kent Press: 598 books
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier
Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Travelers in Worthington, Ohio, might think they were in a New England town. Old brick buildings line the very edges of the sidewalk, and a picturesque village green is flanked by two church steeples. Like most frontier communities, it reflects the heritage of its founders. In New Englanders on the...
Linking Rings
William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
“So how to tell of the life of a magician whose vocation was politics? A simple biography was out of the question. All of the hard research led to an idea. Why not travel back in time for one night to meet the old wizard himself in a car ride that actually did take place at the end of his life?...
A Fighter from Way Back
The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
A welcome addition to the eyewitness sources available to researchers and scholars of the U.S.-Mexican War
Born in July 1821, Daniel Harvey Hill grew up in “genteel poverty” on a large plantation in York District, South Carolina. He entered West Point and graduated in the middle of the...
by Leonne Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The U.S. Company of Sappers, Miners, and Pontooniers, which Congress authorized on May 13, 1846, quickly became one of the army's elite units. During the Mexico City campaign, Company 'A' played a significant role in scouting, building fortifications, and setting artillery batteries. Gustavus Woodson...
Haskell of Gettysburg
His Life and Civil War Papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1989
All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came...
The Second Day at Gettysburg
Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Notable Civil War historians herein continue the evaluation of select commanders begun in The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Using fresh manuscript sources coupled with a careful consideration of the existing literature, they explore issues such as Robert E. Lee’s...
American Chameleon
Individualism in Trans-National Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The concept of individualism that emerged in American society during the late 18th century has long defined America’s social, political, and economic institutions. American Chameleon is the first historical work which addresses this concept and its multiple meanings, usages, and contradictions.
In...
In Darkness with God
The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1994
Joseph Gomez (1890–1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters,...
The Sage of Tawawa
Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In The Sage of Tawawa, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction. Educated at Wilberforce University in Ohio (after losing his scholarship from Oberlin College for protesting the segregation of the...
Building the St. Helena II
Rebirth of a Nineteenth-Century Canal Boat
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Building the St. Helena II tells the story of the 1970 reconstruction of an authentic, operational 1825 canal boat. The narrative unfolds in the small village of Canal Fulton, Ohio, along the surviving one- mile section of the 333-mile Ohio & Erie Canal, which in the 1820s connected the new nation’s...
by Morri Creech
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Displaying a range of voices and subjects—from dramatic monologues in the voices of Judas Iscariot and John the Baptist to harrowing personal lyrics of family, time, memory, and loss—Creech’s poems examine the difficulties of belief and the transcendent possibilities of common experience, pushing...
Dialogue on the Frontier
Catholic and Protestant Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A discussion of the expansion of Catholicism in the West
Dialogue on the Frontier is a remarkable departure from previous scholarship, which emphasized the negative aspects of the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the early American republic. Author Margaret C. DePalma argues...
Beyond the Plain and Simple
A Patchwork of Amish Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A series of vignettes describing Amish people and customs
Pauline Stevick has visited more than 50 Amish homes in numerous Amish settlements across the country. She has attended weddings, viewings, school sessions and programs, family gatherings, and more than a dozen church services. She has...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The concept of the "New South" has elicited fierce debate among historians since the mid-twentieth century. At the heart of the argument is the question of whether the post-Civil War South transformed itself into something genuinely new or simply held firm to patterns of life established...