Kent State University Press: 593 books
Arguing Americanism
Franco Lobbyists, Roosevelt's Foreign Policy, and the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain
“An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions to the Spanish Civil War.”—Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In...
Early Akron's Industrial Valley
A History of the Cascade Locks
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
A pictorial history of a piece of Ohio's canal heritage
In this study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian Jack Gieck examines the story of this remarkable lock system, including a look at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the precipitous terrain to found one of the...
British Buckeyes
The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
How early British immigrants shaped Ohio
Because of their similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the “invisible immigrants,” assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their...
Snow Hill
In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A fascinating exploration of a now-lost communal society
During the first half of the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania became home to a variety of German-speaking sectarians who rebelled against the oppression of European state-church establishments and migrated to the United States to form...
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-...
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...
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....
by Michael J. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Michael J. McManus’s study of political abolitionism in Wisconsin demonstrates the overriding importance of slavery-related issues in bringing on the political crisis of the 1850s and the American Civil War. In the years prior to the war, the political struggle to free enslaved blacks and block...
Cold War Casualty
The Court-Martial of Major General Robert W. Grow
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
New research data gathered through the Freedom of Information Act and the first use of the Grow files provide the framework for this absorbing account of the general court-martial of one of General George S. Patton’s famous armored division commanders of World War II.
The 1952 court-martial...
A Punishment on the Nation
An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history
Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God’s punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through...
Conspicuous Gallantry
The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
A unique and fascinating collection of letters from a soldier, planter, and journalist
The Union states of what is now the Midwest have received far less attention from historians than those of the East, and much of Michigan’s Civil War story remains untold. The eloquent letters of James...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his famed economy of style and unflappable heroes, however, is his public persona. Heming- way helped...
Creatures of Change
An Album of Ohio Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals, but the first blows of settlers axes heralded cataclysmic changes. By 1900 only about 15 percent of the state remained tree-covered. The effects of settlement upon native animal species varied widely, and the fortunes...
Ida McKinley
The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library
This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847– 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from...