The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Buckeye Presidents
Ohioans in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1999
An examination of the important role of Ohio in U.S. presidential history
Only two states can claim the title “the Mother of U.S. Presidents”—Ohio and Virginia. Fifteen presidents have hailed from either Ohio or Virginia, though one of those men, William Henry Harrison, is attributed...
Fernando Wood
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Fernando Wood was one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century America. His fellow New Yorkers either respected or despised him, depending whether they considered his policies beneficial or harmful to their interests. The character revealed herein possessed some admirable qualities;...
Nameless Indignities
Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
New evidence discovered in a 130-year-old mystery
Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois’s most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch...
Translation in African Contexts
Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial...
by Joesph C. Sitterson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Romantic Poems, Poets, and Narrators will be valuable to specialists not only in romantic period studies but in literary theory and poetics as well. Students of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats will appreciate these refreshingly subtle, tactful, and convincing new readings of the major romantic...
Ray Bradbury
The Life of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This is a textual, bibliographical and cultural study of 60 years of Bradbury’s fiction. The authors draw upon correspondence with his publishers, agents and friends, as well as archival manuscripts, to examine the story of Bradbury’s authorship over more than half a century.
Anuta
Polynesian Lifeways For The Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
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 undertook fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. The following chapters explore dominant...
by David Citino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
David J. Citino’s Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life.
Citino’s prose casts light on his poetry, and his poetry helps the reader understand his...
by Robert D. Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999
Brings to life one of the most enigmatic, romantic, and ultimately tragic characters in American history
The life of nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast for lost causes John Louis O'Sullivan is usually glimpsed only in brief episodes, perhaps because the components...
by Benjamin Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
“Reading The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, I had the sense of finding a poet I’d been looking for unawares: one who intertwines a survey of human sexuality (and gay sexuality at that) with theological questions; one who tackles ambitious poetic projects without sounding pretentious; one who writes...
David Zeisberger
A Life among the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
"Detailed research and thoughtful insights make David Zeisberger: A Life among the Indians a valuable study of Indian-Colonist relations in eighteenth-century British North America. Judicious in approach and compassionate without being polemical or sentimental, Olmstead brings to life the story...
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities
Branches of One Living Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A pioneering study of the Shaker west’s opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the...
The Printer's Kiss
The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous borderlands...
Classic Browns
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Browns History - Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This revised and updated edition of Classic Browns counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Browns games, from unexpected upsets to incredible comebacks to titanic championship battles. Knight ranks heartbreakers like The Fumble and The Drive alongside championship duels and epic confrontations with...