Kent State University Press: 593 books
Botanical Essays from Kent
Some Botanical Features of a University Town in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A leading Ohio botanist reflects on Kent’s remarkable flora
During the latter half of the twentieth century, the world witnessed the rise of the modern environmental movement. Chronicling this significant occurrence in Ohio, and specifically in Kent, a university town in the American Midwest,...
May 4th Voices
Kent State, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Eyewitness testimony brought to life through verbatim theater
On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead. This tragedy had a profound impact on Northeast Ohio and the nation and is credited as a catalyst...
Kent State and May 4th
A Social Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
A sociological study of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University and their aftermath
“On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of protestors at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. This tragic act and its aftermath...
A Most Noble Enterprise
The Story of Kent State University, 1910-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The centennial history of one of Ohios premier public universities“This book tells the story of Kent State Universitys first hundred years. It is a story replete with hairbreadth escapes and pratfalls, with moments of low comedy, high drama, and real tragedy. It features a cast of complex, talented,...
Meet Me at Ray's
A Celebration of Ray's Place in Kent, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Stories and trivia from a beloved Kent Institution
Meet Me at Ray’s celebrates more than seventy-five successful years (and counting) of Ray’s Place, a restaurant and bar located near the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio. Once referred to as the place “where the hustlers meet...
by Tim Spofford
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Only ten days after four white students had been gunned down by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in 1970, law enforcement officials fired upon and killed two young blacks and wounded twelve others in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College in Mississippi. The first incident...
Kent State/May 4
Echoes Through a Decade
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The reverberations of the rifle shots that killed four students on May 4, 1970 echoed across the nation and beyond. Nowhere, perhaps, did they echo with more persistence and poignancy than at the place where it happened, the Kent State University campus. For more than ten years the university's name...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Social justice and the shaping of public memory
The essays in this volume explore the complex relationships among events, memory, and portrayal of those events and the deepest questions of human experience, all viewed through a range of disciplinary lenses but grouped into three sections, each...
Above the Shots
An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the Ohio National Guard occurred in the afternoon on May 4, 1970. What remained, along with the tragic injuries and lives lost, was a remarkable array of conflicting interpretations and theories about what...
Compromise Formations
Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
These essays are collected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology held at Kent State University, 7-9 August 1987. In selecting the essays for this first collection to emerge from the varied conferences now being sponsored by the Kent State University Center for Literature...
by Loris C Troyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
As editor and executive editor of the Ravenna-Kent Record-Courier, Loris C. Troyer has been a pivotal figure in Portage County, Ohio, for over sixty years. Since retiring, he has written a weekly historical column entitled “Portage Pathways” on topics ranging from historical landmarks and events...
Democracy and Religion
Free Exercise and Diverse Visions
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate...
The Law Clerk
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
A mystery thriller about a high-profile First Amendment case
“As eye-opening as it is page-turning, Scott Gerber’s Grisham-style legal thriller takes us behind the scenes of the pornography industry and the judicial system, revealing often-hidden realities of each as well as how they can...
An Artist of the American Renaissance
The Letters of Kenyon Cox, 1883-1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family. He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then...