The Kent State University Press: 559 books
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...
by Mary E. Weems
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Energy, dynamic energy emanates from Mary Weems’ careful, observing eyes into her language. These poems offer immediacy, intelligent response, and rich repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.”—Diane Wakoski
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 Robert Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994
Sleepwalking with Mayakovsky is a collection of poems that explores the relationship between chaos and order.“Robert Brown extends a tradition that unites reasons and passion, form and wit, history and memory. These often wry and always thoughtful poems are less acts than dances of the mind, as elegant as they are intelligent.”—William Greenway
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...
Building the St. Helena II
Rebirth of a Nineteenth-Century Canal Boat
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Building the St. Helena II tells the story of the 1970 reconstruction of an authentic, operational 1825 canal boat. The narrative unfolds in the small village of Canal Fulton, Ohio, along the surviving one- mile section of the 333-mile Ohio & Erie Canal, which in the 1820s connected the new nation’s...
by James M. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city’s nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960s
Winsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described “effeminate young man,” French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, enduring his colleagues’ homophobia and...