The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
General Grant
by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“The editor has placed the dispute between Arnold and Twain in its historical perspective. The volume is especially significant because it adds a new dimension to Grant; it places him in relation to the literary men of that era.”—Robert A. Waller, Civil War History
General Grant by Matthew...
A Profile in Alternative Medicine
The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1835-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The Eclectic Medical Institute was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. For nearly a century, EMI was known as the “mecca of eclectic thinking” and the “Mother Institute” of reformed medicine. A Profile of Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine...
by Anele Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas...
Building Utopia
Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2000
Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the...
Antietam
Essays on the 1863 Maryland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The relative importance of Civil War campaigns is a matter for debate among historians and buffs alike. Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Atlanta have their advocates. Gettysburg certainly maintains its hold on the popular imagination. More recently has come the suggestion that no single campaign or battle...
Kilroy Was There
A GI's War in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2000
When I saw Frank Kessler’s collection of photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the...
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The definitive biography of America's 20th president, James A. Garfield. Exhaustively researched and skillfully written.
Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award, the Ohioana Book Award in History, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.
“Garfield’s military career, the congressional...
Major General John Alexander McClernand
Politician in Uniform
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a "political general," he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command of the Thirteenth Corps...
George B. McClellan and Civil War History
In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
A History Book Club Selection
Perhaps no other Union commander’s reputation has been the subject of as much controversy as George B. McClellan’s.
Thomas J. Rowland presents a framework in which early Civil War command can be viewed without direct comparison to that of the final two...
Hudson's Heritage
A Chronicle of the Founding and the Flowering of the Village of Hudson, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2001
Grace Goulder Izant spent the last six decades of her long and productive life in Hudson, Ohio, and this, her final book, was the one that lay closest to her heart. Bringing to it her knowledge as a historian of Ohio, she lifts the story beyond the limitations of local history and makes it illuminate...
Red River Campaign
Politics and Cotton in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
First published in 1958, Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs, and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864.
In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles...
A Light and Uncertain Hold
A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Curiosity piqued by two poems written by his great-great-grandmother initiated David Thackery’s scholarly exploration into the history of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the wartime history of Champaign County, Ohio, from which it was recruited.
Not only a military history, A...
by Larry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were...
by Lisa Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Lisa Coffman is a major poet in the making. Imagine a voice that combines hear-of-American brooding like James Wright’s with a shaded elegance like Elizabeth Bishop’s. Imagine Whitman’s spirit somewhere in the vicinity. Imagine a love of small towns ringed by mountains, a shrewd ear for lonely...