Kent Press: 598 books
Whatever's Fair
The Political Autobiography of Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The autobiography of a legendary Ohio politician and legislator
“The politics that Vern describes—when candidates depended on shaking hands, speaking at every conceivable dinner, passing out literature at the county fair (or fairs, if you were running statewide), and when office-holders...
Caution and Cooperation
The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy
Click here to read a review from The British Scholar
“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly...
Bushwhackers
Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house-...
Framing Elizabethan Fictions
Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Literary historians have been giving increased attention to texts that have hitherto been largely ignored. The works of women, the disenfranchised, and “commoners” have all benefited from such critical analysis. Similarly, letters, memoirs, popular poetry, and serialized fiction have become the...
Classic Steelers
The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Steelers History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had quarterbacked the squad at Duquesne University, purchased a team for Pittsburgh for $2,500. Thus began the legacy we know as “Steeler Nation.”
At...
Child of the Sit-Downs
The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
ForeWord Magazine 2008 Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Biography!
A biography of a prominent labor reformer and early feminist
Strikes affect entire communities, and in the end they need the communities’ support to succeed. This was exemplified in the legendary 1937 sit-down...
by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book of the Year 1996.” This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding...
A Singing Ambivalence
American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans—responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group’s songs reveal...
by Steven Florczyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Ernest Hemingway’s initiation into war
Ernest Hemingway’s enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life, and it provided much of the source material for A Farewell to Arms and his writings about Italy and the Great War. As...
Bloody Dawn
The Story of the Lawrence Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill’s command, the horrors of that...
Rhetorical Drag
Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literature
In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of...
Melville as Poet
The Art of Pulsed Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Herman Melville’s literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rendering of...
Dispatches From Bermuda
The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen's post became one of vital importance to the United States as this British colony became a center for Confederate blockade-running activities....
Pattern of Circles
An Ambassador's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
Pattern of Circles is a success story, for its author and his country. John E. Dolibois was born December 4, 1918, in Luxembourg. His mother died weeks later, and he was raised by an older sister until she left for Akron, Ohio, with her American husband. In 1931 John came to Akron with his father...