Kent State University Press: 593 books
Murder of a Journalist
The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggers
The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a year, Mellett was the editor of the Daily News, owned by former Ohio governor...
by James M. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city’s nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960s
Winsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described “effeminate young man,” French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, enduring his colleagues’ homophobia and...
Nameless Indignities
Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
New evidence discovered in a 130-year-old mystery
Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois’s most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch...
by Thomas R. Flagel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle
This June 29–July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and...
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities
Branches of One Living Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A pioneering study of the Shaker west’s opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the...
The Printer's Kiss
The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous borderlands...
Our Little Monitor
The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although...
Though Murder Has No Tongue
The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat.
Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous “Torso Murders” in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old...
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler
The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
To his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who played chess and hosted summer barbeques in his front yard. But there was a dark side to Sowell—and a horrific secret inside his house. In mid-2007, Crystal Dozier, 38, made plans to...
Hemingway's Cuban Son
Reflections on the Writer by His Longtime Majordomo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
“This is the story of a poor, young Cuban boy who grew into a man and gained the trust and respect of a famous American author, whom he loved like a father. A man he called ‘Papa.’’—from the Preface
In 1996 René Villarreal returned to Cuba to retrieve his memoir of his life with...
Congress from the Inside
Observations from the Majority and the Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1999
Four decades of Democratic control of Congress abruptly came to an end with the 1994 elections, which propelled the Republican party to an unfamiliar role as the majority party in both houses of Congress. Second-term congressman from Ohio Sherrod Brown was thrust into this frenetic first 100 days...
Disqualified
Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest...
Conundrums for the Long Week-End
England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and...
The Widows' Handbook
Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Widows convey their feelings and survival strategies in this compelling anthology
The Widows’ Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring...