Kent State University Press: 593 books
In Darkness with God
The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1994
Joseph Gomez (1890–1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters,...
by Morri Creech
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Displaying a range of voices and subjects—from dramatic monologues in the voices of Judas Iscariot and John the Baptist to harrowing personal lyrics of family, time, memory, and loss—Creech’s poems examine the difficulties of belief and the transcendent possibilities of common experience, pushing...
Dialogue on the Frontier
Catholic and Protestant Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A discussion of the expansion of Catholicism in the West
Dialogue on the Frontier is a remarkable departure from previous scholarship, which emphasized the negative aspects of the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the early American republic. Author Margaret C. DePalma argues...
Beyond the Plain and Simple
A Patchwork of Amish Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A series of vignettes describing Amish people and customs
Pauline Stevick has visited more than 50 Amish homes in numerous Amish settlements across the country. She has attended weddings, viewings, school sessions and programs, family gatherings, and more than a dozen church services. She has...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The concept of the "New South" has elicited fierce debate among historians since the mid-twentieth century. At the heart of the argument is the question of whether the post-Civil War South transformed itself into something genuinely new or simply held firm to patterns of life established...
Trolling Big-Water Walleyes
Secrets of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Experts reveal surefire methods for walleye trolling, equipment techniques, tactics, and more
On big, open water like the Great Lakes, sprawling Western reservoirs, and large North American rivers, trolling puts more walleyes in the boat—hour for hour—than any other fishing method. Why?...
Classic Cavs
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970–71 through the franchise’s renaissance following the triumphant return of LeBron James. The rich, colorful history of the Cavs is woven into tales that...
Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1999
The new standard edition of Edward Taylor's major works of poetry
Daniel Patterson's Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition reconsiders the texts of Taylor's two major works for the first time since Donald Stanford's 1960 edition. This volume also...
by Kate Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
“Kate Hancock’s poems combine intellectual rigor with emotional recklessness like oil and water under special dispensation. This rare ability is a tell-tale sign of a true poet, and the reader who lets these poems have their sure way with him or her will not forget them.”—William Matthews
by Will Toedtman
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
“Will Toedtman approaches all his subjects—from street football to Orpheus—with nothing less than full attention. His voice is distinctive, and it clearly has something to say. A steady gaze, subtle pacing, and an ear for the rhythms of both speech and tradition shape these thoughtful poems....
Behind Bayonets
The Civil War in Northern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
A valuable addition to the literature on Ohio and the Civil War
Eminent Cleveland historian David Van Tassel had undertaken the challenge of writing an illustrated history of the Cleveland homefront during the Civil War. Unfortunately, he died in 2000 before completing his manuscript. Historian...
Scars to Prove It
The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
“When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate...
Blood and Ink
An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1998
Albert Borowitz provides a guide to “fact-based crime literature” focusing on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies and...
Savage Eye
Melville and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Mellville’s interest in the visual arts and the translation of that interest into his writings is at the center of this new interdisciplinary study of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Melville’s lifelong engagement with the visual arts has been noted in other works, but only Savage...