Kent State University Press: 593 books
The Fourth Battle of Winchester
Toward a New Civil War Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
“Counterfactual questions, if kept within the parameters of what was possible at the time and place, can often help us better understand events of the past. In so doing, they can sometimes bring about a ‘paradigm shift’—a new way of thinking about history and hence of grasping its meaning......
They Have Left Us Here to Die
The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The chronicle of a Union soldier’s seven months in captivity
Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive—more than 194,000...
Conflicting Memories on the 'River of Death'
The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
How veterans of two wars constructed contrasting meanings for one sacred landscape
On September 19 and 20, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee fought a horrific battle along Chickamauga Creek in northern Georgia. Although the outcome of this chaotic...
Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill
The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
John Henry Otto was born September 12, 1822, in Westphalia, Germany, and enlisted in the Prussian army sometime around 1845. According to his own account, he served in the war between Prussia and Denmark in 1848 and as a sergeant fought to suppress revolution in southern Germany. He was discharged in...
One Nation Divided by Slavery
Remembering the American Revolution While Marching toward the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The centrality of the American Revolution in the antebellum slavery controversy
In the two decades before the Civil War, free Americans engaged in “history wars” every bit as ferocious as those waged today over the proposed National History Standards or the commemoration at the Smithsonian...
Hudson's Heritage
A Chronicle of the Founding and the Flowering of the Village of Hudson, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2001
Grace Goulder Izant spent the last six decades of her long and productive life in Hudson, Ohio, and this, her final book, was the one that lay closest to her heart. Bringing to it her knowledge as a historian of Ohio, she lifts the story beyond the limitations of local history and makes it illuminate...
A Sailor's Log
Water-Tender Frederick T. Wilson, USN, on Asiatic Station, 1899-1901
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served on one of the Navy’s first modern battleships, the USS Oregon, at the turn of the twentieth century.
Wilson offers a rare uncensored picture of enlisted life, with descriptions of bar girls and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
First published in 1962 as a special edition of Civil War History journal, Civil War Prisons remains the standard on the topic. Editor Hesseltine tackles the historiography of northern and southern prisons during the American Civil War. He attempts to bring closure to the legendary northern myth that...
Campfires of Freedom
The Camp Life of Black Soldiers during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Three related themes are examined in this fascinating study: the social dynamics of race relations in Union Army camps, the relationship that evolved between Southern and Northern black soldiers, and the role off-duty activities played in helping the soldiers meet the demands of military service and...
For Their Own Cause
The 27th United States Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism...
Fallen Leaves
The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Major Henry Livermore Abbott of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was the most widely known and highly respected officer of his rank to serve in the Army of the Potomac. He distinguished himself in every battle in which he participated, from Ball’s Bluff until the Battle of the Wilderness,...
The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown
Radical History and the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown
The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped shape some of America’s greatest writers, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and...
Rooms and Fields
Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Winner of the 2003 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“These poems are full of surprises: the gods talk; ancient authors talk; the dictionary talks; very memorably, the bridge over the Drina River, roughly between Bosnia and Serbia, speaks two haunting poems. The dead talk, wolves talk, a teacher...
And the Wind Blew Cold
The Story of an American POW in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along...