The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
The Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.
Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. “If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Teaching Hemingway in his time
Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway’s work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand the pertinent works, definitions, and types of avant-gardism that inflected his art. The...
Donn Piatt
Gadfly of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A celebrated diplomat and editor whose outspoken opinions shaped views on the national agenda
Born in 1819 in Cincinnati, Donn Piatt died in 1891 at the Piatt Castles that still stand in western Ohio. He was a diplomat, historian, journalist, judge, lawyer, legislator, lobbyist, novelist, playwright,...
Cleveland's Harbor
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
On July 22, 1796, General Moses Cleaveland established the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as the port of entry for the Ohio frontier. He could not have foretold the developments that would turn this hostile marsh into Thriving economic and community center. With its 200th anniversary, the port, now...
Small Comforts
Essays at Middle Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older
“With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond’s Small Comforts is a stunning personal journey that begins with childhood dreams and adolescent fantasies and culminates in career anxieties...
James Monroe
Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, 1821-1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1998
Guided to Oberlin College by Charles G. Finney, the most prominent evangelical reformer in the nation, James Monroe attended the college when Oberlin served as the center of abolition and reform in the West. In Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, Catherine M. Rokicky explores this abolitionist...
One of Custer's Wolverines
The Civil War Letters of Brevet Brigadier General James H. Kidd, 6th Michigan Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Primarily known for his postwar exploits, most famously his 1876 defeat at Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer is receiving renewed interest for his successful Civil War generalship. He led the Michigan Cavalry Brigade in more than sixty battles and skirmishes. Forming perhaps the finest single...
Rockne and Jones
Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Notre Dame’s rallying cry was once “Win one for the Gipper.” The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to face another storied rival to test their mettle. The annual tradition of Notre Dame versus USC...
The Way of the Pipa
Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1992
“Over the centuries a repertoire of solo pipa pieces has developed and this study focuses on those found in the Hua collection, which encompasses the pieces in the repertoire of the Hua family, and was printed, using the wooden block technique, in 1819. Among the works are many ancient melodies...
Rosie the Rubber Worker
Women Workers in Akron's Rubber Factories during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
In this richly illustrated book Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry in World War II.Endres points out that women were not new to the factories of Akron. Years before the war, many women had been balancing their home lives with working in these factories. And...
The Romance of History
Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Romance of History is a collection of articles and essays which reflects the varied professional interests of eminent diplomatic historian Lawrence S. Kaplan. The collection is drawn largely from Kaplan’s former students—accomplished scholars in their own right—but also features senior colleagues.
Throughout...
by George Condon
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A narrative history of Cleveland’s West Side
“In the beginning, two settlements straddled the Cuyahoga River at its northernmost reach, where it twists its way into Lake Erie. The older and larger of the two, Cleveland, was on the east bank. The younger community on the west bank was called...
Citizens and Communities
Civil War History Readers, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Trailblazing essays on the home front from Civil War History
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential articles published in the...