Kent State University Press: 593 books
Red River Campaign
Politics and Cotton in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
First published in 1958, Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs, and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864.
In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles...
A Light and Uncertain Hold
A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Curiosity piqued by two poems written by his great-great-grandmother initiated David Thackery’s scholarly exploration into the history of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the wartime history of Champaign County, Ohio, from which it was recruited.
Not only a military history, A...
by Larry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were...
A Colony Sprung from Hell
Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744-1794
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The early settlement of the region around Pittsburgh was characterized by a messy collision of personal, provincial, national, and imperial interests. Driven by the efforts of Europeans, Pennsylvanians, Virginians, and Indians, almost everyone attempted to manipulate the clouded political jurisdiction...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases
On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where...
by Lisa Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Lisa Coffman is a major poet in the making. Imagine a voice that combines hear-of-American brooding like James Wright’s with a shaded elegance like Elizabeth Bishop’s. Imagine Whitman’s spirit somewhere in the vicinity. Imagine a love of small towns ringed by mountains, a shrewd ear for lonely...
The Will To Believe
Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
A fresh analysis of Woodrow Wilson’s national security strategy during World War I
“By addressing all sides of the American debate on national security questions, and by showing both the complexity and the nuance that characterized that debate, The Will to Believe fills a major gap in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Ernest Hemingway is a writer we often associate with particular places and animals; Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Spain's countryside, East Africa's game reserves, Cuba's blue water, and Idaho's sagebrush all come to mind. We can easily visualize the iconic images of Hemingway with fly rod bent by hefty...
Hidden Hemingway
Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Thinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling ad- ventures. However, fully understanding this outsized international author means returning to his place of birth. Hidden Hemingway presents highlights from the extraordinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The profound impact of Cuba on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work
Ernest Hemingway resided in Cuba longer than he lived anywhere else in the world, yet no book has been devoted to how his life in Cuba influenced his writing. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works corrects this omission by presenting...
by C. Snelling Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In mid-June 1943, Snelling Robinson, a 20-year-old Harvard graduate and newly commissioned ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve, joined the pre-commissioning crew of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Cotten. The new crew trained for the remainder of the summer and t hen sailed to Pearl Harbor in time to...
Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
How a prominent magazine shaped nineteenth-century American literature and culture
During the 1870s, the organization and stewardship of American culture by the upper classes began to take hold on a mass scale, due in part to the founding of museums, municipal libraries, symphony halls, theaters,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
"It is, I think, the collective hope of us involved with this volume that-through its authors' collective experience, intellectual rigor, practical advice, conversational tone, sample syllabi, and enthusiastic encouragement-it inspires future generations of teachers to return to this iconically...
The Supernatural Murders
Classic Stories of True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult
This anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric...