Kent State University Press: 593 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1998
Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury’s...
Hell's Wasteland
The Pennsylvania Torso Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania?
From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city’s safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,”...
At Custer's Side
Civil War Writing on James Harvey King
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During the Civil War, James Harvey Kidd fought along side the General George Armstrong Custer as a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry, the Wolverines. A student at the University of Michigan at the outbreak of the ear, Kidd enlisted in 1862 and was elected captain, commanding a company of Wolverines....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authors
Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader...
Fourteen Stories
Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
“Plunging into one of Jay Baruch’s stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morning—here you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what they seem on the surface. Like his characters, Baruch’s writing is vibrant and intense, and his vision...
This We Know
A Chronology of the Shootings at Kent State, May 1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The events that led up to and include the shootings of May 4, 1970 are part of a story that continues to be written. This We Know succinctly documents the facts that fill out the chronology of events of the four fateful days that ended with members of the Ohio National Guard wounding nine Kent State...
Denmark Vesey's Revolt
The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution...
Major McKinley
William Mckinley & The Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
“A finely written and deeply researched book. It adds a major dimension to McKinley’s life and times and will interest all students of the Civil War as well.” —H. Wayne Morgan, author of William McKinley and His America (Kent State University Press, 2003)
“The Civil War was a crucial...
Race and Recruitment
Civil War History Readers, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The second volume of the best from Civil War History
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this second volume in its multivolume...
Conflict and Command
Civil War History Readers, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and others
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The inaugural volume in a new historiography series
Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier...
In the Wake of the Butcher
Cleveland Torso Murders, Authoritative Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badals In the Wake of the Butcher: Clevelands Torso Murders—the first book to examine the horrific series of unsolved dismemberment murders that terrorized the Kingsbury Run neighborhood from 1934 to 1938. Through his access to a wealth...
Ohio States
A Twentieth-Century Midwestern
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998
With gentle humor, Hammond presents readers with the charms, aggravations, quirks, and disappointments of small-town life and frustrates any expectation that the past's deepest lessons are simple. In Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern, Jeffrey Hammond asserts the quiet mysteries of an ordinary...
Sounding the Whale
Moby-Dick as Epic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten’s comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of...