Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
by Edward J. Olszewski
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
In 1985, the Sohio oil company commissioned Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to design and construct a large outdoor sculpture for its new corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. The result was Free Stamp, a bold and distinctive installation that captured both a Pop Art sensibility and a...
by Robert Silverberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1986
In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the speculation surrounding these monuments and the scientific excavations which uncovered the history and culture...
Empowering the Public-Private Partnership
The Future of America’s Local Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
America’s cities are increasingly acknowledged as sites of renewal and economic opportunity—but how can city leaders facing physical and financial constraints harness this positive energy to create sustainable development? The story of Cleveland in the early 1980s provides the necessary roadmap....
Driven toward Madness
The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera....
by Pamela Scully
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014–15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf’s relationship...
Smoky, the Dog That Saved My Life
The Bill Wynne Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
World War II soldier Bill Wynne met Smoky while serving in New Guinea, where the dog, who was smaller than Wynne’s army boot, was found trying to scratch her way out of a foxhole. After he adopted her, she served as the squadron mascot and is credited as being the first therapy dog for the emotional...
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams,...
Asylum on the Hill
History of a Healing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied the nineteenth-century “gold standard” specifications...
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War
Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society. At the beginning of the rebellion, state governors in Ohio,...
by Brandon Kendhammer, Carmen McCain
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world’s most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram’s bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond the headlines, including the group’s 2014 abduction...
by Henry Northrup Castle
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
George Herbert Mead, one of America’s most important and influential philosophers, a founder of pragmatism, social psychology, and symbolic interactionism, was also a keen observer of American culture and early modernism. In the period from the 1870s to 1895, Henry Northrup Castle maintained a correspondence...
The Memory of Place
A Phenomenology of the Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts the memorial landscape that is written into...
Missing Millie Benson
The Secret Case of the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Growing up in Ladora, Iowa, Mildred “Millie” Benson had ample time to develop her imagination and sense of adventure. While still a journalism graduate student at the University of Iowa, Millie began writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which published the phenomenally popular Hardy Boys series,...
Holy Week
A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday...