The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Ohio's Craft Beers
Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Ohio's Craft Beers celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger...
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...
Fort Laurens, 1778-1779
The Revolutionary War in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1976
While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man’s land between the Colonists’ Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778,...
Ohio and Its People
Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
The Bicentennial Edition of Ohio and Its People is a revised and updated volume of this bestselling work and includes a new final chapter examining Ohio through the end of the twentieth century. Author George W. Knepper presents contemporary information on the national and state political arenas,...
A Hero to His Fighting Men
Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Nelson A. Miles began his military service as a volunteer officer in the Civil War. He later earned the appellation “the idol of the Indian fighters” and capped his controversial career by serving as Commanding General of the Army from 1895 to 1903.
Without the benefit of a college education,...
Labor Market Politics and the Great War
The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
The Department of Labor seized the opportunity provided by the chaotic labor market conditions during World War I to expand the US Employment Service (USES) and to establish control of the national labor market. That attempt provoked a reaction on the part of states that had created their own employment...
British Buckeyes
The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
How early British immigrants shaped Ohio
Because of their similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the “invisible immigrants,” assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their...
by Frederick S. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Frederick S. Calhoun’s new book makes a timely and important contribution to examining one of the most serious questions confronting the nation’s foreign relations: When and how to use military force. By citing numerous examples from the past, Calhoun is able to show that there is an infinite...
The Good-Bye Door
The Incredible True Story of America's First Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The true story of the first female serial killer to die in the electric chair
Nicknamed “the Blonde Borgia,” Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its first woman...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to study the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and is the chief publication of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies—the archive of Bradbury’s writings located at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Like its pioneering...
The New Ray Bradbury Review
Number 6
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Ray Bradbury recognized as a master of horror fiction
Bradbury, though a celebrated author, is often shortchanged. He is valorized within one genre (science fiction) and marginalized in others (detective fiction, film scripts, poetry, and, yes, horror fiction). His importance and influence...
America's Football Factory
Western Pennsylvania's Cradle of Quarterbacks from Johnny Unitas to Joe Montana
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarter- backs enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That percentage is wildly disproportionate to the number of superstar quarterbacks any one state might claim, let alone a mere sliver of...
As Ohio Goes
Life in the Post-Recession Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we rarely hear the voices of regular people living the transformation.
As Ohio Goes is a journey...
Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial
The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July 4, 1954. The cause of death was twenty-seven blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much...