Kent State University Press: 593 books
by Jim Tully, Mark Dawidziak
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting...
Rolling Down Black Stockings
A Passage Out of the Old Order Mennonite Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
A rare memoir of growing up Old Order Mennonite
Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers’s youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother’s love as it is a tale...
Ohio's Western Reserve
A Regional Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources—many now out of print and difficult to locate—to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the “New Connecticut” region of Ohio. Four divisions in the book logically organize the social, economic,...
Cradles of Conscience
Ohio's Independent Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Because of its early history of westward expansion and its diverse population, Ohio is home to many independent institutions of higher education. They range from prestigious and richly endowed colleges and universities to local and regional ones that have well served their student populace over the...
Classic Bengals
The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Bengals History
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The stories behind the 50 greatest games in Bengals history, sure to spark much interest and argument among legions of loyal fans
Who can forget the famous “Freezer Bowl” AFC championship victory over the San Diego Chargers or the heart-stopping Super Bowl classic against the San Francisco...
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
“Honoree Jeffers is an exciting and original new poet, and the Gospel of Barbecue is her aptly titled debut work. These poems are sweet and sassy, hot and biting, flavored in an exciting blend of precise language and sharp and surprising imagery that delights. They leave a taste in your mouth, these...
Rebellion and Riot
Popular Disorder in England During the Reign of Edward VI
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
The short reign of Edward VI was a turbulent one, even by Tudor standards. The kingdom was threatened by widespread unrest, riots, and rebellions among the common people. In this study, Beer looks at these dramatic events from the viewpoint of the rebellious commoners. Above the clamor of the streets...
OSS Against the Reich
The World War II Diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
OSS Against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America’s first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and...
Linking Rings
William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
“So how to tell of the life of a magician whose vocation was politics? A simple biography was out of the question. All of the hard research led to an idea. Why not travel back in time for one night to meet the old wizard himself in a car ride that actually did take place at the end of his life?...
A Fighter from Way Back
The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill, 4th Artillery, USA
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
A welcome addition to the eyewitness sources available to researchers and scholars of the U.S.-Mexican War
Born in July 1821, Daniel Harvey Hill grew up in “genteel poverty” on a large plantation in York District, South Carolina. He entered West Point and graduated in the middle of the...
by Leonne Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The U.S. Company of Sappers, Miners, and Pontooniers, which Congress authorized on May 13, 1846, quickly became one of the army's elite units. During the Mexico City campaign, Company 'A' played a significant role in scouting, building fortifications, and setting artillery batteries. Gustavus Woodson...
Haskell of Gettysburg
His Life and Civil War Papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1989
All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came...
The Second Day at Gettysburg
Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Notable Civil War historians herein continue the evaluation of select commanders begun in The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Using fresh manuscript sources coupled with a careful consideration of the existing literature, they explore issues such as Robert E. Lee’s...
American Chameleon
Individualism in Trans-National Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The concept of individualism that emerged in American society during the late 18th century has long defined America’s social, political, and economic institutions. American Chameleon is the first historical work which addresses this concept and its multiple meanings, usages, and contradictions.
In...