Kent State University Press: 593 books
by Evelyn Helmick Hively
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920s
The Benét name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize–winning poets and novelists during the first half of the twentieth century. Less well remembered are...
Ripperology
A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2002
Ripperology, the sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper, is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time...
The Righteous Remnant
The House of David
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and ’30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious...
Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929
Diplomacy in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A comprehensive history of the relationship between the United States and reformist Uruguay
Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestled in the corner of South America between Argentina and Brazil, is scant when compared to that...
by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) is one of the most important and highly respected figures in the history of geology. This in-depth biography documents his career and life from birth to retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
With...
Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique
From the Old South to the New South and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) rose to great heights as a newspaper publisher, political leader, and ambassador, but his life is surrounded by controversy to this day. Charges that he contributed to the death of his second wife, an heiress whose bequest of five million dollars helped purchase the...
White Coats
Three Journeys through an American Medical School
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Although we rely on physicians, calling on them at birth and death and every medical event in between, rarely do we consider the personal challenges faced by doctors-to-be. In 2005 author Jacqueline Marino and photojournalist Tim Harrison had the unprecedented opportunity to chronicle the experiences...
The Boy General
The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The biography of an ambitious Civil War soldier
Drawing heavily on primary-source material, The Boy General is the first full-length account of Francis Channing Barlow, one of the most successful combat officers in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
Although his clean-shaven,...
Requiem for Revolution
The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Let us once again transform the American continent into a vast crucible of revolutionary ideas and efforts…” urged President John F. Kennedy on March 13, 1961. “Let us once again awaken our American revolution until it guides the struggle of people everywhere—not with an imperialism of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The return of popular nineteenth-century short stories of the early American frontier
“James Hall was part of a literary scene in Cincinnati and in Illinois at the same time as Hawthorne and Irving were publishing short stories in New York and Boston. Middle Westerners should be delighted...
The Bones of the Others
The Hemingway Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
“There is no work that competes with this. . . . Every chapter is fresh—and always interesting. The Bones of the Others is a strikingly contemporary way to approach this never-dated modernist. Justice shows how Hemingway got where he was trying to go, perhaps even before he knew the direction...
by Susan Neale
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“'Everywhere we have been since beginning/Is Mapped in the memory somewhere,’ writes Susan Neale at the outset of this ambitiously conceived and enormously satisfying collection of poems. Here is a poet who wants nothing less than to know the past. Her fields of study are the history of light...
New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier
Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Travelers in Worthington, Ohio, might think they were in a New England town. Old brick buildings line the very edges of the sidewalk, and a picturesque village green is flanked by two church steeples. Like most frontier communities, it reflects the heritage of its founders. In New Englanders on the...
The Sage of Tawawa
Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In The Sage of Tawawa, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction. Educated at Wilberforce University in Ohio (after losing his scholarship from Oberlin College for protesting the segregation of the...