Kent State University Press: 593 books
by Mark Kwasny
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
"This solid, workmanlike monograph, based on impressive research and laced with first rate maps… gives the reader a greater appreciation of the performance of the states and their leaders in the northern theater of the war. And it shows that Washington was flexible in his use of the militia,...
Narrating the News
New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
A scholarly examination of “new journalism”
Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late nineteenth century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose that appealed to readers, drawing on popular literary genres such as travel adventures, detective tales, and...
Sympathy, Madness, and Crime
How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles...
Being Present
Growing Up in Hitlers Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
“Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted...
by John Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Barrett Beer here presents the first scholarly edition of Sir John Hayward’s Life and Raigne of King Edward VI, the earliest biography of the last Tudor king. Originally published in 1630 and again in 1636, Hayward’s account was reprinted in White Kennett’s Complete History of England in 1706....
by George Puttenham
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1971
Published in 1589, The Arte of English Poesie can be considered the first full-scale work of poetic criticism in England—“a noble monument,” in Professor Hathaways words, “astraddle the rude beginnings of the speculative aspects of English literary culture.” Its three main parts are a treatise...
The Weaver-God, He Weaves
Melville and the Poetics of the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Melville has long been regarded as an author of raw genius who knew, or cared, little about the art of the novel, and even harbored hostility toward its conventions. In The Weaver-God, He Weaves, Christopher Sten sets out to correct this widespread view, showing not only what Melville knew about the...
Lincoln's Generals' Wives
Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War--for Better and for Worse
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of Jessie Frémont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman, and Julia Grant, the wives of Abraham Lincoln’s top generals. They were their husbands’ closest confidantes and had a profound impact...
The Cleveland Grays
An Urban Military Company, 1837-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Vourlojianis examines the history of the Grays from its founding in 1837, through military service in three wars, to its modern incarnation as a social and philanthropic group.
While the nature of the organization has changed, the Grays still maintain a proud tradition of service to their city....
Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation
Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2003
Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Feinberg’s updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertood fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. The following chapters explore cominant...
by Julius A. Amin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Peace Corps was established in 1961 during the Kennedy administration, symbolizing a new direction in foreign policy-making for the United States. Founded on large aid programs staffed by volunteers, the agency’s primary goal was to help modernize Third World countries while guarding against...
Ironclad Captain
Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior office in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest.
Phelps,...
This Infernal War
The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families. The Standards of Lewiston in Fulton County, Illinois,...
by Helga Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1994
This collection of personal and autobiographical poems is written by Helga Sandburg, daughter of the poet, Carl Sandburg. It contains a quartet of poems written after the death of her husband, as well as work inspired by the themes of motherhood, music, nature, and travel.