Kent Press: 598 books
Canal Fever
The Ohio & Erie Canal, from Waterway to Canalway
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Original essays on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal
Combining original essays based on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal, Canal Fever showcases the research and writing of the best and most knowledgeable canal historians, archaeologists, and...
by Todd Savitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans
During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological...
A Profile in Alternative Medicine
The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1835-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The Eclectic Medical Institute was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. For nearly a century, EMI was known as the “mecca of eclectic thinking” and the “Mother Institute” of reformed medicine. A Profile of Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine...
Kindly Medicine
Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines for allopathy’s mineral drugs and promoted the belief that the human body has...
Radio Daze
Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1999
Cleveland has long enjoyed its reputation as one of the hottest music centers in the country and as the Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World. Trends started or gained major recognition in Cleveland and were fueled by local radio stations and their disc jockeys, who connected with their audience and...
Corpsmen
Letters From Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Corpsmen: Letters from Korea, the Chappell twins gathered together their letters to chronicle their experiences as medical corpsmen in the First Marine Division during the Korean War. From boot camp to Bethesda Naval Hospital and on the Fleet Marine Force training and eventually the front line,...
William McKinley and His America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
When George W. Bush won the White House, he was the first incumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896.
William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House. Known widely as the Major, in honor of his military rank, he rose through...
Keepers of Culture
The Art-Thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz, and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The conflict between modern and traditional art is one of the best known episodes in American cultural history. The modernists on the war in the sense that their styles and attitudes of mind dominated the discussion and production of new art. But the traditionalists remained strong in the arenas of...
by Anele Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas...
Conrad Wise Chapman
Artist and Solider of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Conrad Wise Chapman (1842-1910) is unique among Civil War artists: he painted and sketched while on duty as a Confederate soldier who served in three theaters of the war. Chapman’s first-hand knowledge is evident in his work. Ben Bassham has written both a critical study of Chapman’s art and a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Translators Writing, Writing Translators is a collection of essays by some of the leading scholar-practitioners working in the field of translation studies. Inspired by the work of distinguished translator and theorist Carol Maier, the contributors reflect, in a variety of forms—from biographical...
by Jonathan Goodman, Albert Borowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime
Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these...
by Robert Miltner
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“What continues to affect me in Robert Miltner’s Against the Simple is the silence that haunts the edges of experience and meaning. Like the lonely streetscapes of Giorgia De Chirico, Miltner’s poems, often cast in brief sentences surrounded by an eerie quiet, haunt us with the unseen and the...
Unknown Soldiers
The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The Great War remembered
“This book is not a history of World War I, nor is it a history of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front. Rather, it is a collection of essays that examines how the wartime generation and those that followed have remembered or commemorated individuals,...